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Time.

If the low Guard is without your Sword, you must lash in _Tierce_,
crossing the Sword and push without.

If the low Guard is neither within nor without, you must lash smartly in
_Tierce_ and in _Quarte_, that is to say on his Outside and Inside,
pushing _Quarte_ afterwards, opposing with the Left-hand: This Thrust
puzzles a Man who disengages quick, which in this Case is of no use.

You may also engage this Guard placing yourself within, the Wrist in
_Tierce_, and the Point low[4] closing the Enemy pretty near to oblige
him to push above, and if he pushes there, you must parry and risposte
above, or under, according as you have Light.

If instead of making a Thrust above, he makes a Feint there and pushes
within, or under, you must push _Quarte_, opposing with the Left-hand,
or else going to the Parade with the Sword to all Thrusts and Feints
without, leave to the Left-hand the Defense of the Inside, and of the
under Part.

And if instead of pushing, he waits for your Thrust to take the Time
upon it, you must press close upon him and push strait in _Quarte_, with
the Point low, opposing with the Left hand, in order to throw off his
Sword, or push at his Arm, of which you are in Reach, though he is not
in Measure of your Body.

These Sorts of Guards are not so much practised, with Sword in Hand, as
the middling Guard, People being more careful of parrying with the
Sword, and a Man is in much better Condition to parry from the middling
Guard than from any other.

_To attack the Guard where the Sword is held in both Hands._

Those who hold the Sword in both Hands, that is to say, the Handle in
the Right-hand, and the Blade about four Fingers Breadth in the Left,
will either engage, or beat on your Sword, with great Force, or stick to
a strong Parade, in order to uncover you the more, in Favour of their
Thrust.

But as they cannot keep this Situation without exposing their Body very
much, which is often dangerous, as also a very unseemly Posture, this
Guard is therefore, with good Reason, condemned by most, if not all,
experience'd Masters.

If you have to do with one that holds this Guard, you must keep your
Point a little low, and be always ready to change, in order to render
the Strength which the Left-hand gives to the Right, useless, in his
engaging or beating.

If he will not attack you, but waits for your Thrust in order to parry
and risposte, you must make a Half-thrust, and recover quickly