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| | George Silver: Paradoxes of Defense |
 | | The short staff or half pike, Forest bill, Partisan, or glaive, or such like weapons of perfect length, to be used with both hands, have the advantage against two swords and daggers, or two rapiers, poniards and gauntlets, and against all other weapons whatsoever, the Forest bill excepted. |
| | And the rather because the bill has two wards for one against the staff or Morris pike, that is to say, four with the staff, and four with the head, and is more offensive than is the staff or Morris pike. |
| | Again the battle axe, the halberd, the black bill, the two handed sword, and sword and target, among armed men and troops, by reason of their weights, shortness, and great force, do much more offend the enemy, and are then much better weapons, than is the short staff, the long staff, or the forest bill. |
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