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Title: The Art of Fencing
The Use of the Small Sword

Author: Monsieur L'Abbat

Release Date: April 24, 2004 [EBook #12135]

Language: English

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The ART of

FENCING,

or, the USE of the

_Small SWORD_.

Translated from the FRENCH of the late celebrated

Monsieur L'ABBAT;

Master of that ART at the Academy of TOULOUSE.

* * * * *

By ANDREW MAHON, Professor of the SMALL SWORD in DUBLIN.

_DUBLIN_:

Printed by JAMES HORT, at the Sign of _Mercury_ in _Skinner-Row_, 1734.

DEDICATION.

[Transcribers note: First page of dedication missing.]

sue for. I shall omit saying any Thing, My Lord, of the shining
Qualities, which seem Hereditary in Your Lordship's Family, as well as
of the Dignity and Importance of the Charge with which His Majesty has
been pleased to entrust Your Lordship's Most Noble Father. Neither will
I presume to trouble Your Lordship with those Encomiums, which are most
deservedly due to the Vertues, whereby Your Lordship has gained the
Admiration and Esteem of the Polite and Ingenious Persons of this
Nation. Be pleased then, My Lord, to permit me to have the Honour of
subscribing myself,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's

Most devoted, and

Most humble

Servant,

_Andrew Mahon_.

PREFACE.

I thought it very suitable to my Business, when I met with so good an
Author as Monsieur _L'Abbat_, on the Art of Fencing, to publish his
Rules, which in general, will I believe be very useful, not only as they
may contribute to the Satisfaction of such Gentlemen as are already
Proficients in the Art, and to the better Discipline of those who intend
to become so, but also in regard that the Nicety and Exactness of his
Rules, for the most Part, and their great Consistency with Reason, may,
and will in all Probability, lay a regular and good