Et c’est en quoi l’on voit. And by this y ou see

5. l’emporte hautement sur, far excels. The V of V emporte is evidently neuter : le.

There is a passage in Scarron’s Jodelet duelliste {1646) expressing this same sentiment. Fencing was held in high esteem at this time. In 1656 Louis XIV. had even ennobled six of the best fencing-masters.

6. tireur d’armes. Contemptuously for maître d^armes. Cf. batteur de fer, page 18, line i.