Swashbuckler Too.

You'd call them 'novelas of the cape and sword'
- while maybe Don Diego or Alatriste's
steel would run with blood and
not a Musketeer's.
Sabatini's Scaramouche
might interest you
although Rafael was quite
as Britishly staid as I,
or so it seems.
But the blades still flash - and slash
-like Milady's glare at Athos,
or yours at me
from time to time.