Tossing Your Pike

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"... in such sort as by the nearnes of the formost ranks of their enemies before them, they haue not spacee∣nough againe to thrust; nor that by the nearnes of their fellowes ranks next behind them, they haue any conue∣nient elbowe roome to pull backe their piques to giue a new thrust; by meanes whereof they haue vtterly loste the vse of their piques, they therfore must either present∣lie let them fall to the ground as vnprofitable; or else may with both their hands dart, and throw them as farre for∣ward into & amongst the ranks of their enemies as they can, to the intent by the length of them to trouble their ranks ..."
Sir John Smythe, 1591
Certain Instructions, Observations and Orders Military
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/a12568.0001.001?view=toc
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