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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18744	A light bondell of liuly discourses called Churchyardes charge presented as a Newe yeres gifte to the right honourable, the Earle of Surrie, in whiche bondell of verses is sutche varietie of matter, and seuerall inuentions, that maie bee as delitefull to the reader, as it was a charge and labour to the writer, sette forthe for a péece of pastime, by Thomas Churchyarde Gent.; Churchyardes charge	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1580 (1580)	STC 5240; ESTC S105030	25,886	45

A light Bondell of liuly discourses called Churchyardes Charge presented as a Newe yeres gifte to the right honourable the Earle of Surrie in whiche Bondell of verses is sutche varietie of matter and seuerall inuentions that maie bee as delitefull to the Reader as it was a Charge and labour to the writer sette forthe for a peece of pastime by Thomas Churchyarde Gent. Â¶ Imprinted at London by Ihon Kyngston 1580. Â¶ To the right honourable my especiall good Lorde the Erle of Surrey Thomas Churchyarde wisheth many happie Newe yeres Fortunate daies and weekes encrease of honour and vertue with moste assured felicitie I Knowe not my good lorde whether my boldnesse and presumption be greater then the basenesse of my matter herein penned and I mynde to presente consideryng the worthinesse of the personage to whom I dedicate my booke and the weakenesse of my wit that presenteth vaine verses where vertue of the mynde aboundeth But for that I treate not of mere trifles nor meane to corrupt sound senses and good maners with wanton wordes or leude rime I am partly perswaded this myne Newyeres gift shall giue your lordship delite and purchace to my self the desired thankes that euery honest writer deserueth Because the substance and effect of all my inuentions are shadowed vnder the sheld of good meanyng And a matter well meant by the courtesie of true constructioÌ„ maie passe the muster good opinion of the people emong the best assemblies that looketh on the furniture I bryng and ablenesse of my penne And albeit some weapons want to beate backe the thompyng boltes of euill tongues in my defence be it spoken yet the Armour of right and Target of trothe shall bee sufficient to strike doune the blowes that hautie hartes with threatnyng thwartes can offer And who so euer hastely or vnaduisedly through malicious wordes hinders the credite of any honest workes maie be thought both a rashe and a parciall speaker a busie medler in matters thei neither mynde to amende nor nor will suffer that the worlde shall speake well therof But now farther to procede enter into the cause of this my boldnesse the troth is in callyng to remeÌ„brance Ã promes that I made touching some verses And honoryng in harte the Erle of Surrie your Lordshipps graundfather my master who was a noble warriour an eloquent Oratour and a second Petrarke I could doe no lesse but publishe to the worlde somewhat that should shewe I had lost no time in his seruice And finding an other of his race and towardnesse who hath taste and feelyng in the good giftes of Nature and noble vertues of his auncestours the hope of whiche graces promiseth greate perfection to followe in tyme to come I thought I might dedicate a booke vnto your Lordshippe named by myne owne liking Churchyards Charge But now right noble Earle the worlde louyng change and varietie of matter waxeth awearie of freuoulous verses because so many are writers of Mieter and looketh for some learned discourse by whiche meanes my barrain bookes maie remaine vnred or misliked and so lye on the Stationers stall as a sillie signe of a newe nothyng neither worthe the buiyng nor the regardyng To that I maie aunswere vnder pardon and correction that the grounde whiche of Nature yeldeth but Thistles or Brambles maie bryng forthe no good Corne of it self contrary to his operation and kinde Nor a man that is accustomed to treate of trifles maie not meddle with the deepenesse of graue argumentes For as it passes the searche and capacitie of a simple witte to se into any matter of importaunce so it is necessarie that a pleasaunt and plaine companion should alwaies be occupied about pastymes and namely at Christmas wheÌ„ little short tales driues out a pece of the long nightes and rather with mirthe to procure a laughter then with sadnesse prouoke a lowryng and he that sturreth vp the heauie myndes to light some consaites is more welcome in euery place then he that ouerthrowes the weake senses of common people with curious imaginations and burthens bothe bodie and mynde with wordes of greater weight then common iudgement can coÌ„ceiue and be able to beare A tale or a toye mirrely deliuered pleaseth moste mennes eares and an earneste sadde argument either rockes a man a slepe or maketh the hearers a wearie And the nature of Rime is to reuiue the spirites or moue a smile when many a one is scarce pleasauntly disposed A Rime goeth on sutche feete standeth on sutche ioyntes and rappeth out sutch reasons that wisedome taketh pleasure in and follie will make a wonder of The woordes by inuention hits a thyng so iompe and kepes sutche a decorum and methode that bothe order and measure is seen in the cunnyng conueyance of the verses especially if the swete and smothe sentences bee sifted from the sowre rough Branne of needelesse babble and vanitie A sensible witte hauyng the pennyng of the matter But loe my good Lorde in shewyng the nature and qualitie of a good verse how my hoblyng is seen and perceiued by the badnesse or bare handelyng of the thynges herein written yet now I haue ron so farre in ouerweenyng that either I am forced to goe forward or remaine in the midwaie discomforted and without remeadye VVherefore albeeit I shall shewe but a bondell of drie deuises I must open my fardell make sale of sutche stuffe as my hedde hath been stuffed withall Euen like the poore Peddlar that trudgeth with his packe to a Faire and there vnfoldeth emong some newe laces odde trifles a greate deale of old ware and little reÌ„nantes that for lacke of quicke sale hath laine long in a close corner I neede not to seeke out a patron to support them for thei are neither worthe the readyng nor the buiyng yet hauyng no better am compelled to vtter the thynges I haue lefte Prouidyng that my nexte booke maie shewe somewhat emong the rest that goeth before for that it shall be dedicated to the moste worthiest and towardes noble man the Erle of Oxford as my laisure maie serue and yet with greate expedition Thus beyng ouer tedious and bolde in stretching out a short and sorie Epistle that had been better knit vp in fewe lines I wishe your Lordship many newe and happie yeres long life to your liking to the honour of GOD and encrease of good fame and a peece or portion of eche goodnesse can be named From my lodging nere to the Courte the first daie of Ianuarie Your Lordshippes alwaies at commaundementâ— Thomas Churchyard To the freendly Reader I Daily trouble the good Reader with Bookes Verses Pamflettes and many other triflyng thinges as mutche to hold thee occupied in good will towardes me and keepe thee from losse of tyme as for any matter that I either caÌ„ gaine glorie by or deserueth to bee embrased but vsyng me and my workes thankefully and paiyng me for my paines with the like courtesie that other men reapeth for their labours I

thinke my studie well bestowed and promes yet with my penne to pleasure thee farther And for that I would haue all menne to thinke that in trothe and plainnesse I haue greate felicitie and doe hate any kinde of flatterie or finenesse I meane in my next booke called my Challenge to ronne ouer many of myne other woorkes and where peraduenture by some reporte of others that knewe not the trothe I haue failed in settyng foorthe of some seruices emong the whiche Maister Ihon Norrice and diuers worthie gentlemen Captaines now in Flaunders haue not the worthinesse of their seruices declared I doe promes that now beyng better instructed and hauyng true intelligence of thynges as thei were I will at large write the commendation of as many as merites to bee honoured for their well doyng and make amendes where either by ignoraunce or the report of others I haue failed For so sure as GOD is Almightie if I could gaine mountaines of golde to flatter any one in Printyng an vntrothe I would rather wishe my handes were of then take in hande sutche a matter For neither affection fauor commoditie fame nor parciallitie at no tyme nor season shall willyngly lead my penne amisse And farther if I thought any one for his owne glories sake had tolde me more then is truely to bee proued I would not onely condempne my self for giuyng sutche hastie credite to vainglorious people But in like sorte my penne should shewe the blotte in their browes that giueth me wrong aduertisementes And so good Reader condeÌ„pne not me if anything bee amisse or lefte out that ought to haue been touched For as I knowe and am instructed seeyng not all my self I must write and so till my nexte booke come forthe where many thynges shall be treated of and that my good will to the honouryng of vertue shall bee seen I bidde thee fare well freendly Reader crauyng thy fauourable Iudgemente on that I haue written From those men for whom my booke hath bin a blast of fame vnto as I did beleue by the true troÌ„pet of penne are not of sutche greate abilitie that either their purses power or countenaunces could comptll me to followe their humours nor by any meanes woorke my muse to their willes whose ritchesse and wealthe is not able if men would be hired to wrest a wrie the hande and hedde of an honest writer And to make manifest that I neither will be infected nor carried awaie from that whiche is good for any badde practice and perswasions I confesse before GOD and the worlde I scarce haue receiued thankes for the honest labors I haue taken at their handes that I haue written of mutche lesse haue I been recompenced or founde cause to flatter the worlde But in one thyng I maie reioyce the honourable persone to whom my Choice is dedicated and others of great callyng hath bothe been gratefull sondrie waies in moste bountifull maner and also hath encoraged me to proceede in the like paines whiche in very deede I mynde to go about as well to the fame and glory of good menne as for the aduoidyng of sloth and idelnesse my self FINIS Â¶ A storie translated out of Frenche IN old tyme paste in Picardie there dwelt an honest man Whose name the storie doeth not tell what he was called than A wife he had a house he helde as Farmers vse to doo And lacked little for thesame that did belong there too And as God sent hym suffisance to rubbe forthe life here lent So for to chere vnweldie age faire children God hym sent Of whiche he had one moste in minde a lad of liuly spreâ—te Who with great care he kept to schoole as for his youth was meete This boye to glad his fathers harte in bookes set his delite And learnd to make a Latine verse to reade and eke to wriâ—e And for his Nature was enclinde to studie learnyngs lore The better he aplied his schoole he profited the more To make his schoole the sweeter seem with Musicke mixed was The studie that he followd then the tyme awaie to passe Good bookes were bought and instruments greate charge was but smal let If that thereby the father might the sonne some knowledge get In seuen yeres as tyme it was this striplyng gan to taste Tyme well emploied tyme driuen forthe and tyme ill speÌ„t in wasâ—e And made no small account thereof but still sought more to haue Wherewith he to his father came on knees this did he craue I haue ê™ he dere father now my childishe daies ore ronne And as I thinke and you beleue my boyes delites are donne And as my witte and grace hath seru'd some learnyng haue I gote And as I knowe you loue me well on me you should not dotâ— I meane I should not still at home vnder my mothers wing Be brought vp like a wanton child and doe no other thing The worlde is wide I want no witte your wealth is not so greate But you maie thinke in some dere yere I scarce deserue my meate And though your kinde and custome is full fatherlike alwaie Yet should your sonne discretion haue to ease you as he maie Wherefore to make your burthen lesse let me goe seeke my happ And let no longer now your sonne be lullde in mothers lapp The father wise well vnderstoode his childs request at full And that the fethers of his youth he thought awaie to pull Before he gaue hym leaue to parte by councell graue and sage Well boye quoth he now art thou come vnto thy flowryng age Now art thou like the little wande that bent and bound will bee Vnto his hande or to his skill that liste to maister thee Now are ripe yeres soone rotten made now art thou apt to take Bothe good and badd but cheefly things that age bidds thee forsake And now large scope shall sone forget what short rein learnd in schole And thou that wisely wast brought vp shall plaie the wanton foole Abrode as wilde harebrains are wont newe taken from their booke And in a while laie all a side nere after their on looke In eury place of thy repaire thou shalt no father finde Nor scarce a freende to whoÌ„ thou maiest at all tymes sho thy minde But on Gods blessyng goe thy waie thy wilde Otes are vnsowne Hereafter time shall learne thee well things to thee now vnknowne The ladde his leaue and farewell tooke well furnisht for the nonce And had about hym as I trowe his treasure all at once To court he came all maisterlesse and sawe what likt hym beste Of runnyng Leather were his shues his feete no where could reste His bookes to blade and bucklar chang'd he gaue ore scholars trade Where reuell roysted all in ruffe there he his residence made This rule had soone his purse so pickt that princoks wanted pence And oft he sawe some trussed vp that made but small offence His father farre from seyng this he come of honest stocke He hoffryng forthe a hatefull life

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