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copper, both for fear that, resting such shields on the ground, they will get damaged, as well as to prevent them from being split & damaged from sword blows. When marching they carry them behind their backs, with the strap as a sling, and when fighting, on the left arm. For offensive weapons, he has a strong sword somewhat large & very sharp edge, three feet long, with dagger broad & well sharpened, a good foot long. The long & strong pike eighteen feet long, furnished with a strong & sharp iron, & if one asks me how they can help each other with such shield & pike together, let us say when we come to the place of the manner of combat. The musketeers are equipped in the same way, except that instead of pikes, they carry a musket, which is not long like that of ours, but only two feet and a half, so that it is so light that there is no need of a fork to support it, & is made of such an artifice that one fires it five hundred paces from point to point, having none of the arms to protect from it, drawing on him fifty paces. For the simple arquebuziers, they are armed with a light pointed morion,[1] & a cuirass also of boiled leather, without tassettes[2]: but |
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1. Morion is a type of helmet. 2. Tassette, "A little cap; also, the skirt of a garment, and the tasse of an armor in which fence is the most commonly used plurally..." [Cosgrove] |