The School of Recreation (1696 edition) - Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, - Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science - of Defence by Robert Howlett
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_Pike_, that when the Butt-end your Right-hand may be against your Eye;
keep the _Pike_ near your Head by clapping the Butt-end to the Latchet of your Shoe; and here all the Butt-ends of as many as are exercised must fall to the Ground at one and the same time. 28. =Pikes to you Inside Order.= Place the Butt-end on the Inside your Right-foot to the middle, not moving your foot, but only your _Pike_. 29. =Lay down your Pikes.= As many as exercise in this case, must step altogether with their Right-legs; stoop together with a very Quick Motion, and Lay their _Pikes_ down very strait with their Right-hands. 30. =Quit your Pikes.= Fall back with your Left-leg, bringing it even with your Right: Then quit your _Pike_ absolutely, and rise up with a quick Motion. 31. =Handle your Pikes.= Here you must step forward in a quick Motion with your Left-leg, and then as many as exercise must stoop together, and extend their Right-hands as far as they can reach, and then grasp the _Pike_. 32. =Order you Pikes.= With your Right-hand raise the Pike, and step back with your Left Leg, |
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