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Sword from the Inside to the Out, then you must bring the left Foot to the side of the right, and bring back the right presenting the Sword to the Enemy. If he parrys with his Feeble, you must, without stopping, either cut over his Point from within to without, or turn the Wrist in _Seconde_, lowering your Body, and bringing up the right Foot seize his Guard, then carrying your Sword from within to without, you advance the left Foot to the side of the right, and drawing back the right present your Sword. The easiest means to avoid and hit a Man who passes in _Quart_ within are to parry dry and Rispost swiftly in the Flank, and if the Pass is made straight along the Blade with the Fort to your Feeble, you must by lowering your Feeble, turn your Wrist in _Quarte_ carrying the Point perpendicularly down, supporting the Wrist, without, and bringing your Sword round by the Outside of the Adversary's Shoulder, you find your Sword above his, with your Point to his Body. You may also upon the same Pass lower the Body and push _Seconde_. [Illustration: 10th Plate. The Turning the Body on a Pass in Tierce.] [Illustration: Pass in Seconde Volting the Body.] _To Pass in_ Tierce. In passing _Tierce_, as in a Lunge, the Wrist must draw the Shoulder and Body forward, bringing, as in a Pass in _Quarte_, the Left-foot about two Feet and an Half before the Right, then advancing the Right foremost and out of the Reach of the Enemy's; you must seize the Guard of his Sword, and again advancing the Left-foot near the Right, you draw back the Right and present the Point. The Counters or Opposites to this Pass, are the strait Rispost, or the Rispost under, the taking Time, cutting _Seconde_ under, disengaging, or counter disengaging and volting, but the surest is to loosen the Right-foot turning the Body half round to the right, opposing with the Sword and presenting the Point to the Enemy, which hindering him from hurting you, throws him on your Point if he abandons himself, and at the same time you seize the Guard of his Sword. _See the 10th_ Plate. _To Pass in_ Seconde. In passing _Seconde_, there must, as in a Lunge, be a preparatory Motion, which is made by a Feint, or by an Engagement on the Blade to oblige the Enemy to parry high, in order to take that Time to pass under, which is done by advancing the Left-foot very much, with the Body lower and more forward than in other Passes, and advancing the Right-foot, you s
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