This play is called False Point and Short Thrust, and I will say how to fashion it: I make to with great force in order to strike the player with a Mezana blow to the head. And immediately that he makes the cover I strike his sword lightly. And immediately I turn my sword to the other side taking hold of my sword with my left hand near to the middle. And quickly I place the point in his throat or his chest. And this play is better in armour than without.
This is the contrary of the play that is before me, namely the False Point or the Short Thrust. And this contrary is done in this way: when the scholar strikes at my sword, in turn he does with his sword immediately I turn mine at the same time he turns his. But I pass to the side in order to find the opponent more uncovered. And then I put the point in his face. And this contrary is good in armor and without.
Here finishes the Gioco Largo of the two handed sword which are united plays which have plays called remedies and contraries from the right side and from the left side and counter thrusts and counter cuts for every side with breaks, covers, strikes and binds that all these things understood if they may have the knowledge.
Here begins the Gioco Stretto plays of the sword in two hands, in which will be reasons for covers and strikes and binds and dislocations and presse and taking the sword and smiting to the ground in various ways. And there shall be the remedies and the contraries of every reason that must be done to offend and to defend.