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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18766	A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewest the effect of true affection and vnfoldes the finenesse of this world VVhereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same: with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu[een's]. most excellent maiestie. Written by Thomas Chvrchyard Gent.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1588 (1588)	STC 5257; ESTC S109866	15,367	36

famous worke this man coulde bring to light The glory then and honor of this deede is hers and ours shall be the gayne therein We reape the Corne whoeuer sowde the seede who ere haue lost we shall be sure to winne This mill remaynes a sampler to the rest that after comes to shewe whose worke is best No doubt but some this course will followe on a straunger left this worke to looke vpon That many moe by this may builded be and many heads and handes may thriue thereby He merits much that first plants fruitfull trée they purchase prayer that first doth practises try They ought not reap that neuer ment to sowe they winne great hap that can through hazards go They lose no time that toyles for publike state they glory gayne that first a conquest gate Nowe gallant witts that ioyes in doing well ply pen a pace whiles learning may be had Now stripplings yong but late come out of shell to Schoole good boyes to make your parents glad Now Printers presse that sets foorth many a booke besturre the stampe that worlde for newes may looke Now Stationers that worketh all the yeere sell bookes good cheape for Paper is not déere Nowe writers graue that studies heauenly things your workes shall shine by meane of Papers grace Nowe Marchant wise that home great profit brings send letters out abroad to euery place For Paper doth present it selfe to those in common weale that writeth verse and prose The merry myll nowe grindes and goes so braue that worlde at will shall alwayes Paper haue When Paper was not throwly knowne of men they wrote in stones and barks of trees for shift But loe long since the Paper and the Pen by deepe deuice found out a finer drift And most to prayse because of trifling toyes so great a wealth our worthy world enioyes Of drosse and rags that serues no other meane and fowle had shreds comes Paper white and cleane And euen so the baddest people may became good folke if they will bide the stampe Which people first with many a worthy way must be well wrought like oyle that burnes in Lampe For Oyle is tried and pur'd eare it be solde and searcht throw out as fyre tries out the golde And when the oyle is fit to blaze or burne it is applied at néede to serue our turne So man is méete to serue his natiue soyle when thumping worlde abroad hath tried him throwe Or heere at home his life hath scaped foyle and he thereby may shew a blotlesse browe But this must be as Paper passeth mill mans doubtfull dayes must passe through perilles still And though great blowes do beat him backe a space hee bides the brunt to get the greater grace And yéeldes to thumps and thwartes as yce to thawe as frost to fier will soft and gentle waxe Or as stiffe neckes will stoupe and yéelde to lawe compelde by flame to yéelde to fire like flaxe For nothing more becomes a noble minde than bide the blastes and puffe of euery winde Whose bellowes blowes to hinder well wonne fame when doe well shall in spight possesse good name If ship passe storme and tries the surging seas comes quiet home to harber in a roade Man must of force through torment purchace ease and must beleeue great burthen is no load And so bace ragges whereof is no account through straining hard past tenter hookes may mount And bodie cost and tumbled vp and downe may come to rest and reap right rare renowne Mans secrete faultes and foule defects of minde must be reformde like ragges in Paper mill When hammers help hath changde his cankered kinde and clensde the heart from spots and former ill A second shape and forme full fresh and new he doth receiue in nature grace and hiew When Water streames hath washt him ouer quite than man becomes like paper faire and white If Water were as scant as deerest wine how should this world mainteine each science heere In Water thin there dwels a power diuine where face is seene as in a Christall cleere An Element that euery creature needes wherein full oft both fowle and fishes breedes Whereby a world of people daily liue and God to man doth manie a blessing giue What earth or soyle can flourish where it wants colde Water sweete doth coole the scalded brest The drops whereof doth comfort hearbes and plants and graces great by Water is possest Then muse not man if Water thee reforme that art but earth and foode for scraling worme A bladder pufte with winde and ayer full thinne that can not bide the push of baggage pinne Our finest coyne of siluer or of golde in grossest sort is handled as ye knowe And beaten long and thumped treble folde before it doth for currant money goe The wollen cloth that from the walkemill comes at first must passe through manie handes and thums Yea washt and walkt with Water where it goth ere it do take his breadth and thicknes both What linnen lawne or cambricke can be white if Water do not throughly wash the same It scowres that cleane that is as dunne as Kyte and brings fowle cloth in perfect forme and frame All slubbred things must néedes be washt anue fowle things are nought if prouerbe olde be true Thus prooue I plaine by course of Water mill and hammering world mens manners changeth still Though some do say in France and other place are Paper mils as fayre and straunge as this Whats that to vs this giues our Country grace and to all Kent a double honor is That in the soyle was borne our worthy Quéene by straungers meane so straunge a worke is séene And straungers are so glad with straunge deuice to serue and please our Prince of péerelesse price In other Realmes there milles are not in woorth scarce halfe so good the proofe may well be founde This is so fine with workmanship set foorth so surely built and planted in the ground That it doth séeme a house of some estate a Mill moste rare a worke deuisde of late Whose goodnesse great excéedes the outward showe and from whose stampe shall publike profite flowe And troth to tell the mill is blacke and white and Water doth worke all the Paper there The sight thereof shall bréede more rare delight than man with eye beholdes in many a where This somewhat more may moue a maruell héere no profite may be reapt in many a yéere The author than of this newe Paper Mill bestowes great charge and gaynes but worldes goodwill Death may preuent his hope and purpose too death cuts off all from him if it so hap If losse so fall what then shall Spilman doe but so receiue the losses in his lap This daunger great deserueth some regard or of the worlde doth merit some reward Giue him good speech as reason doth require yéelde duety so the labror hath his hire An high Germaine he is as may be prooude In Lyndoam Bodenze borne and bred And for this Mill may héere be truly loude and praysed too for déepe deuice of head But if the hope of gaine quit not the cost the world will iudge his labour is but lost To hazards hap he doth commit the same and séemes as yet to care for naught but Fame Wealth wit and time with toyle and trauaile great he plyes a pace and spareth for no charge The Mill goes round the workmen moyle and sweate the streame goes straight that earst ranne all at large The whéeles conueyes the Water diuers wayes the Hammers thump the stamp but seldome stayes The ragges and clowts becomes as white as snowe and all these knackes the master néedes must knowe Whose purse whose paynes and purpose is not small whose plot points out a peece of worke right fayre To hinder none but made to please vs all to which braue Mill do thousandes still repayre To sée what things are wrought by cunning skill to Gods great prayse and Princes honor still And to the place and soyle where it doth stand a goodly grace and Paper neere at hand Loe heere how man to paper is comparde that readie is to take both stampe and print Though triall great and manie a passage hard more stiffe than steele that strikes out fire from flint But though most hard the path and passage be in the right way it sets man franke and free That hath bene brought in bondage from his birth and makes him seeme a little God on earth Full fraught with wit with Art and science great with learned lore with skill and knowledge deepe With giftes diuine that feares not fortunes threat with quick deuice that can both get and keepe With reason such as rules each other thing of Beast and Fowle the onely Lord and King A Prince of all the earthly pleasures héere found out with paine and bought with trauayle déere AA FINIS Byshop of Ely