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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

that no barres of yron may breake nor policie of people may put asunder He y t hath trauayled as I haue done through the torrest of affliction where many wilde beastes are wandering in the woods some roring and running after their pray shall see how narrowly he hath escaped from the gaping and deuouring monsters and finde that if friendshippe and good fortune had not holpen him he had bene vtterly destroyed From the highest to the lowest reckon what degrees can bee named in good sooth they are all left alone bare-footed and desolate where friendship hath forsaken them But where or into what laborinth O Lorde haue I now brought my selfe for now I am forced to goe forward and may not steppe backe but seeke an open way to walke in orderly to set downe and shewe the substance of friendship the flatterie of the world and the sinenesse of our age the circumstance whereof craues an other maner of discourse and volume than this little treatise can vtter What then as by small sparkes or kindled coales great fire is made and of a trifeling tale true matter may bee gathered so out of weake wordes strong arguments may bee sifted and through a number of spiced speeches a simple sentence may shewe some sauour and yeeld such tast to the quicknesse of vnderstanding that the hearers wittes and iudgement shall willingly stand contented with all that shall be spoken And friendship is so much desired spoken of and necessarie for all kinde of people that onely the bare and naked name thereof is sweete and most acceptable though the writer thereon be but meanly learned and of small sufficience to set out at the full the fulnesse of so florishing a vertue Then forward to the purpose I say and proue that the same is true friendship that proceedes from vertue and hath so noble a nature by a diuine motion of goodnesse that neither vice can corrupt nor any kinde of vanitie vanquish For where it taketh roote it buds so beautifully that it bringeth foorth an euerlasting fruite whose taste is more sweete and precious than can bee easely imagined And now in a season when finenes and flatterie so aboundeth and striues by cunning practises to supplie the place of friendshippe and ouergrowe euery braunch that springs from loyall amitie this true friendshippe is most sweetest of sauour and most highest of reputation and burnes with a quenchlesse flame like a blazing Beakon or sparkling Torche that can abide all windes which is set vp on the toppe of a high Mountaine For fine or grosse flatterie is but a bare foyle to set forth a bad Iewell and the craftie curious cunning of these artificiall fellowes that feedes all mens humours makes through their manifolde trumperies a free passage to perfect faithfulnesse and friendly good will There is couertly crept and finely conuayed into the common societie of men a hundred sondrie sortes shewes of amitie which in deede are but iuggling castes or ledger demayne to purchase fauour and deceiue the lookers on If all that speake faire bowe downe knee make trim curtchie kisse fingers and handes yea offer seruice and friendshippe were harty and louing friends the world would bee so full of friendship that there were no place left for adulation and dubble dealing And surely if a man durst discipher the deepenesse of dissimulation wee should finde our ordinarie manner of friendship so faint-harted and lame that it neither could goe out of the doore with any man nor yet dwell safely with many in the house It seemeth and may bee well aduouched that friendship of it selfe is so secrete a mysterie shrined in an honest hart that few can describe it and tel from whence comes the priuie and inwarde affection that sodainly breedes in breast and is conuayed to the hart with such a content and gladnesse that the whole powers of man leapes in the bowelles of the bodie for ioye at that instant For example some that neuer giues cause with probable matter to bee embraced and made account of as a friend is by a naturall inclination receiued into fauour placed in delight and planted perpetually so long as life lasteth in the warme bosome of our frendly affections and fauourable conceites Then further note a wonder of nature for we see a merueilous motion among men for some and that a great number hauing neither harmed vs nor ministred any way occasion of dislike yet no sooner in our companie but we finde their persons offensiue their presence vnpleasant their wordes sharpe spoken well and to the best meaning yea their workes and whatsoeuer they will doe are taken amisse and construed to the worst But chiefly to be noted we litle desire the acquaintaunce peraduenture of a friendly companion Thus so to hate without cause and loue earnestly without desart is a matter disputable and argues plainly that friendship is without comparison the onely true loue knot that knits in coniunction thousands together and yet the mysterie and maner of the working is so great that the ripest wittes may waxe rotten before they yeeld reason and shewe how the mixture is made that two seuerall bodies shall meete in one minde and bee as it were maried and ioyned in one maner of disposition with so small a shewe of vertue and so little cause that may constrayne both parties to be bound and fast locked in a league of loue Then what may bee thought on those that currie fauor followe for good turnes turnes about like a wether-cocke faunes where fortune fauors and fauors no where but for commoditie countenance credite and to compasse that they seeke If friends bee chosen by election and priuie liking these open palterers may goe whistle for neither they know the boundes of a good minde nor the blessednesse that belongs to friendship What then should we say of mens behauiours in generall For without reuerence vttered by courtesie suing and following for benefite fauning and speaking fayre for entertayning of time creeping and crouching to keepe that wee haue and winne that wee wish all ciuill order would bee forgotten rudenesse would make reuell and men should sodainly misse the marke they shoote at But graunting now these ceremonious fashions and maners yet the vsers thereof are no more like friends than a Maske and Mommerie with vizars on their faces is like a company of graue Senators that gouerns a mightie Monarchie And more then monstrous it is that such paynted shadowes are commonly preferred to bee as pillers of friendshippe when friendship without proppes stands against all weathers and windes and is of a more cleere complexion than to bee patched vp with compounds or matched with corrupted maners ennie to vertue and friend to nothing but vice For friendshippe is a certaine felicitie of the minde a sweete ensence that burnes before God a preseruer of mans renowne and life a willing bondage that brings freedome for euer a stedfast staffe that all good people doe stay on the mother and nurse of

A SPARKE OF FRENDSHIP AND WARME GOODWILL THAT SHEWES THE EFFECT OF TRVE 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. most excellent Maiestie Written by THOMAS CHVRCHYARD Gent. Nulla potest esse incunditas sublata amicitia Cic. pro Flace Printed at London 1588. EN·DIEV·ET·MON· ROY· Churchiards Armes TO MY HONORABLE Frend Sir Water Ralegh Knight Seneshall and Chancelor of the Duchie of Cornwal Exon Lord Warden of the Stanneries and her Maiesties Lieffetenant of the Countie of Cornwall c. ENFORCED by affection that leades the mindes of men to a multitude of causes I stood studying howe to requit a good turne receiued and confessing that no one thing is more mōstrous in nature than an vnthankefull minde I saw my self in debt bound either one way or other to pay that Iowe but not in such degree as I receiued but in such sort as my abilitie serueth as a man might say to make a cunning exchange in steed of due payment to offer glasse for gold bare words for friendly deedes In good truth my honorable Frend if my creditours will so stande contented I am readier to depart from wordes and discharge debt therewith than to promise treasure and offer that I haue not For if free harted people fortunate in the worlde through bountie of minde towarde my sutes or preferment bestowe manye speaches to doo mee good where grace is to bee gotten I can but yeeld one ordinarie thanke for a thousande benefites except they ransacke my storehouse of vaine inuencions and finde some pleasant papers bepainted with verses or pollished Pamphlets beblotted with barraine matter where both verse prose shall make but a bad restitution for the goodnesse I haue stollen by fortune or borrowed by frendshippe Yet waying how little Fortune hath done for mee and howe fewe creditors I haue that haue either lent me anie porcion of preferment or procured me but a peece of anie certaine liuing I thinke my self somwhat able with the little talent God hath giuen me to repay all the debtes that euer I could bring to perfect remembrance sauing one a most honorable Personage that I dedicated my booke of Choice vnto who got me two great Seales besides common courtesies manie to shifte withall a season And furthermore your selfe 6. yeres past bestowed good speaches to the Q. Maiestie in my behalfe by the which I got some comfortable recreation to quicken my spirites keepe me in breath And yet loe a matter to be mused at I haue sixteene seuerall bookes printed presently to bee bought albeit they are but trifles dedicated in sundrie seasons to seuerall men off good and great credite but to be plaine not one among them all from the first day of my labour and studies to this present yeere and hower hath anie waye preferred my sutes amended my state or giuen mee anie countenaunce I hope I am not much indebted to those nor fallen so farre in their dangers but may easely get out though I yeelde them no more but a customable good will So finding my Muses franke and free from their seruitude I addresse this woorke of vnfeyned friendshippe to your good consideration which worke showes the value and woorth of frendes whose loue is necessarie about all Estates the flatterie and finenesse of foes and the dayly dissimulation of a cunning worlde And if the world meruaile why I treat of that which is so commonly knowen and often put in practise I answere not those wondring wits but shoot what bolts I thinke conuenient at the bad behauiour of transformed people that beares but the shapes of tame men showes the maners of wilde monsters and if the worlde say as I knowe it is talkatiue I show a kinde of adulation to fawne for fauour on those that are happie I answere that is a point of wisdome which my betters haue taught me and I haue read in a great booke of latine printed 400. yeres agoe that one of your owne Ancestors called Sir VVater Ralegh had more fawners followers than you haue for he was L. chiefe Iustice of England and so farre in credit with his Prince his learning was such that he made lawes edicts the which the Prince confirmed allowed I take an example from the fish that followes the streame the fowles that comes to the couert from the windes and the brute beastes that auoydes a sturdie storme vnder the sauegard of a strong and flourishing tree Their craftie forecast though they want reason may succor the simplenes of any reasonable creature the defence and prouision they make to escape open danger may set to schoole a great companie of ignorant schollers But I leaue to speake of their examples because they are brute and follow the grauest sort of sage wise personages that will not blush nor thinke scorne to learne a lessō of their forefathers that got al their good fortune by following the flood where we fish for preferment Thus honorable friend as my affection other good causes moues bad me go forward with this my deuice Present vnto you so beginning the same in health and falling sodainly sicke I feared God would haue cut me short from my purposed enterprise but his goodnes called me vp from the bed of sorrow where despaire had almost dispatched the life and set me afoote to go and ende my first determination and brought me in hope you wil accept my good will which may encourage me to a further labour and studie that may purchase more greater fauor thanks So resting yours in al that my small power may stretch vnto I take leaue and wish you what goodnes you can imagine or desire London at my lodging the 8. of March Most willing at commandement T. CHVRCHYARD AA ¶ A sparke of Friendship and warme goodwill Where Friendship findes good ground to growe vpon It takes sound roote and spreads his braunches out Brings foorth fayre fruite though spring be past and gon And blowmeth where no other grayne will sprout His flow'rs are still in season all the yeere His leaues are fresh and greene as is the grasse His sugred seedes good cheape and nothing deere His goodly barke shines bright like gold or brasse And yet this tree in breast must needes be shrinde And liues no where but in a noble minde BEing rockt too long in the careles cradle of idlenesse where slouthfull lims are soone lulled a sleepe the hinderer of health good happe and vertue a multitude of worldly causes my honorable friend awakened my wittes and bad the sensible Spirites arise from the forgetfull couch of drowsie rest and offer the bodie to some profitable exercises that therby the head

in hand another matter haue I prayse the man that first did paper make the onely thing that sets all vertues forth It shoes newe bookes and keepes old workes awake much more of price than all this world is worth It witnesse beares of frendship time and troth and is the tromp of vice and vertue both Without whose helpe no hap nor wealth is won and by whose ayde great workes and déedes are done It flies from friend and foe in letter wise and serues a state and kingdome sundry wayes It makes great winde where neuer dust doth rise and bréedes some stormes in smoothest sommer dayes It telles of warre and peace as things fall out and brings by time ten thousand things about For schollars fit and merchants all alike for plowe men good that digs and delues the dike For good Deuines and lawyers not amisse for Saylers too and those that trauell farre For Students best that knowes what learning is for pleaders meete for men of peace or warre For all degrees that are of manly kinde a right good meane that may expresse the minde A néedefull thing that no good wit may want a thing moste vsde yet neuer will be skant What man or sex or shape of worthy molde can paper lacke but buies it lesse or more Things present are in paper long enrolde so things to come and things long past before Though partchment duer a greater time and space yet can it not put paper out of place For paper still from man to man doth go when parchment comes in few mens hands you knowe If paper be so precious and so pure so fitte for man and serues so many wayes So good for vse and wil so well endure so rare a thing and is so much in prayes Than he that made for vs a paper mill is worthy well of loue and worldes good will And though his name be Spillman by degrée yet Help-man nowe he shall be calde by mée Sixe hundred men are set a worke by him that else might starue or seeke abroad their bread Who nowe liues well and goes full braue and trim and who may boast they are with paper fed Straunge is that foode yet straunger made the same Spillman Help-man so rightly call the same For greater help I gesse he cannot giue than by his help to make poore folke to liue Fewe helps these dayes to bring vs any wealth some sundry wayes doe still more harme then good So such as help doe breede good bloud and health and in best part ought well be vnderstoode If paper mill helps poore and harmes no rich the gayne is great and the inuention much The worke not small the labor worth the viewe because old Art is nowe reuiude a newe One Thirlby went Embassador farre from hence to Charles the fift an Emperour of great fame And at returne did bring with him from thence a learned man Remigius by name Who Thirlby loude and made by his deuise a paper mill but not so much in price As this that nowe néere Darthford standeth well Where Spillman may himselfe and houshold dwell Well this is he that first héere profite brought first triall made of thinges not héere well knowne First framde the forme that sundry paper wrought first tooke in hand by charges of his owne A doubtfull worke that others earst begun Who spent thereon more wealth then well they won This man alone the substance shewes so right that all the rest were Lampes that gaue no light The mill it selfe is sure right rare to sée the framing is so queint and finely done Built all of wood and hollowe trunkes of tree that makes the streames at point deuice to runne Nowe vp now downe now sideward by a sleight nowe forward fast then spouting vp on height As Conduits colde coulde force so great a heate that fire shoulde flame where thumping hammers beat The Hammers thump and make as lowde a noyse as Fuller doth that beates his wollen cloth In open shewe then sundry seceete toyes makes rotten ragges to yéelde a thickned froth Then is it stampt and washt as white as snowe then flong on frame and hangd to dry I trow Thus Paper streight it is to write vpon as it were rubde and smoothde with slicking stone Through many handes this Paper passeth there before full forme and perfect shape it takes Yet in short time this Paper yucke will beare whereon in haste the workeman profit makes A wonder sure to see such ragges and shreads passe dayly through so many hands and heads And Water too that Papers enmy is yet Paper must take forme and shape from this This Water doth not onely driue the mill but giues it grace and makes it fine and fayre Is cause and ground to giue it fashion still for it is made with Water winde and ayre And takes his forme of compoundes mixed well wherein there doth a secreate nature dwell A heauenly power that earth and ayre hath knit by cunning Art and worke of humane wit For cloth and silke and mettalles fine or bace are wrought of thinges that haue a substance great This findeth forme and stampe in straunger cace as Water mill made rags and shreds to sweate Of whose thick froth a creame or crudde should rise that shoulde take shape and strength by breath of skyes Though sure a meane there is to worke the same some secrete cause brings Paper first in frame As corne is sowne and there must rotte in grounde before it blade or takes good roote or strength Then reapt and thrasht and to the myll full rounde is sent to grinde and made good dow at length Then kneaded well then bakte and made good bread so paper sure through many a hand and head Doth passe like drosse that of it selfe is nought till it be tried by skill and throughly wrought From drosse commes gold when fier hath searcht it well so all thinges haue their worth from some great cause The pearle some say is fetcht from oysters shel thus each thing yéeldes to Art and natures lawes As fier from slint through stroake of stéele we finde so world may see what wonders worketh kinde Glasse was at first as straunge to make or vewe as Paper nowe that is deuisde of newe Of newe I meane in England saue one man that had great wealth and might much treasure spare Who with some charge a Paper mill began and after built a stately worke moste rare The Royall exchaunge but got by that more gayne than he indéede did loose by former payne But neither he nor none before his dayes made Paper mill that merits so much prayse As this that nowe is not full farre from hence where Water ranne in waste and vaine a way Nowe profit yéeldes and brings in poundes and pence that quittes the cost and doth the charge defray This had not bene if Prince had not retained the straunger héere by whome these giftes are gayned Her highnesse than sawe in her déepe foresight what