(p.174/#4) (Sword vs. Pole Arms; Coda Lunga Stretta with the Left Foot Forward as Patiente) But if he should throw some attack to your front leg, and you will be in the aforementioned guard; you in a single tempo will pass with the right foot towards his left side giving him in the same tempo a rising mandritto, beating the haft towards his right side, and the left leg is carried behind the right, and passing with the right foot forward you will make a roverso to the face, or to to the part that is most convenient for you to strike.