> Jane:
> > Trouble is, the saucepans would make a nice
> dramatic
> > CLANG but wouldn't do a lot else. The armour would
> > certainly slow him down while you used your
> "Cobb's
> > Traverse" ability, though. (Go on, Google it. It's
> a
> > documented bit of 1600s footwork, I'll tell you
> that
> > much.)
>
> Oh yeah? I don't have a "Cobb's Traverse" ability.
I bet you do. You may not call it anything so exalted, but I bet you've got it.
Here you are: George Silver in his Paradoxes of
Defence, 1599.
"This Cob was a great quarreler, and did delight in
great bravery to give foul words to his betters, and
would not refuse to go into the field to fight with
any man, and when he came to the field, would draw his
sword to fight, for he was sure by the cunning of his
traverse, not to be hurt by any man. For at any time
finding himself overmatched would suddenly turn his
back and run away with such swiftness, that it was
thought a good horse would scarce take him. And this
when I was a young man, was very much spoken of by
many gentlemen of the Inns of the Court, and was
called Cob's Traverse and those that had seen any go
back too fast in his fight, would say, he did tread
Cob's Traverse."
Should you wish to read the rest of what Mr. Silver has to say, there's an on-line copy here: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html
> I do, though, have a mother of a soapstone pan, my
> favourite possession.
> http://www.fantes.com/soapstone.htm
Ooohh.... wants.... but not as a weapon, thank you. Come to think of it, that's probably one of the few Silver doesn't discuss.
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