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[English Translation] running is involved, without any effort. In the second they begin to learn to draw weapons, dance high, vault, handle a light pike with the run, the forced bars, jump hurdles, foslez, & the garter at chest height, play forced ball, swim in all ways, play long palm & tripot. The third age continues the exercises of the second, and in abundance they throw the bar, fight with the strongest, swim across large rivers with sword in hand and breastplate on their backs, or else dragging with their teeth some large burdens after them, in order to be able to use this skill in canusades and surprises of towns, where there would be some large river, or ditch full of water: They also lead all sorts of boats with all hands, whether going up, going down, or crossing rivers and streams: They also learn besides that to go on the rope, and to hold the body straight in equal balance, so that if by chance it were necessary to pass over some narrow wall, or to cross over the woods and roofs of houses, or over the edges, planks and rope poles of ships, they would not be astonished, but they proceed with assurance as on dry land, they climb still on the most |
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