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[English Translation] trees and rocks, almost inaccessible, so that when they come to climb over half-ruined walls, or over rocks between cuts, they pass freely and without any surprise. They climb up fairly high towers and walls with two sharp daggers, placing them one after the other in the paths of the stones with their bodies suspended in the air, and descend all the same. Sometimes they fight in the barrier fully armed with dead pikes and swords drawn, both to teach them to strike straight, and not to be surprised at the squabbling of maces and swords: And for the last of the exercises, they learn to make a horse go well, either on the ground, or on high according to what this profession requires, and still more to dismount from a horse running at full speed, and to remount in the same way, to leap from one horse to another while running, to run with the feet on the saddle straight without flinching, and also with the head down and the feet up, to fight in the fashion of the Scytes, holding one or two horses in the hand and the sword in the other, changing horses while running, when one sees that the one on which one is, is tired or wounded: and several other supplenesses necessary to make the bodies agile, and to fight well |
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