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The Art of Wrestling by Fabian von Auerswald
The Art of Wrestling: 85 pieces
to the honorable and gracious Electors of Saxony
by Fabian von Auerswald.
1539.
English Translation copyright 2005 by James Klock.
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Forward
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I
n hope that it should please / the honor of the illuminated and highborn sovereign and
lord / Lord John Frederick / Elector of Saxony / my gracious Lord / have I, Fabian von
Auerswald / taken upon myself / the honorable and noble art / and the knightly virtue
of wrestling / which I have, by the authority / of the wise and illuminated, highborn sov-
ereign and lord / Lord Ernest / Elector of Saxony / blessed and Christian in his thought
such as from the same widely-famed wrestling masters / as have instructed the Elector
and the young men / of my gracious Lords / the Electors' sons / and other sovereigns
Counts and Lords / who have from those noble men and myself learned.
And I have, in the same knightly and noble art / instructed / and drawn together,
and in an artful and systematic report / and text / brought into print
which is also the righteous art of wrestling / and previously the figure of it
never came. / Which high report I also beg my gracious sovereign and lord
with God's help I have been bestowed / and from which many honorable and good people
may profit / honorably and with piety / to honorable and knightly causes
it will be brought to light. And it is my hope / my humble and friendly prayer
that when / any so high or low in station / should my work
and labor / encounter or acquire / That he would take from me the same gracious
friendship and aid / and keep myself and my children in his aid / Now that I am an eccen-
tric old man / For I was born in 1462 / And have this work
in the Year of Our Lord
1537, in Wittenberg,
completed.
The greatest companion is good balance,
wrestling boldly, and never faint hearted.
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Firstly, look and see
if your opponent comes to you high or low
If he is high / you must not worry
and may from these techniques,
as your senses guide you,
freely take
But if he is low
then have yourself in greater caution
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