Note to Much Ado About Nothing, 5.2.21: "the pikes with a vice;"


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Act 5, Scene 2, lines 21.
pikes: spikes in the center of a shield. vice: screw. —In the drawing below, taken from a Renaissance manual of combat, the buckler has a pike.

Sword & Buckler
Source:
DiGrassi His True Arte of Defence