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[English Translation] bear arms. Otherwise they must serve their time, but with some freedom to go & train themselves through the city & at Court: which is not permitted to others. ============================= Exercises according to their age. CHAP. VIII. There are many men so impertinent & inconsiderate, who having a youth in their hands, have no regard for them, weakness & low age putting them at the head of the most painful & violent exercises, which is the cause of bringing them an infinity of inconveniences all the time of their life: But in this flourishing Academy one does not proceed in this way, on the contrary one considers weakness & strength, & according to these one orders the exercises. So at the first age, they play the trumpet, the monk, the dimple, the crozier, the ball, the table, the deer; they learn the steps of the dance without any caprioles, entrechars, or other rounds, & other little games where only |
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