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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

mutuall loue the conqueror of hate the pacifier of quarels the glorie of Kings and the suretie of subiects And friendship is so princely and noble of condition it may not bee ioyned with anie but such as are as honorable as it selfe You shall see among friendes of equall calling that are like of affection such a sweete and common consent of fraternall loue and liking that euery thing is wrested to the best construction and no one matter may be ministred amisse the mindes and manners of men runs so mirrily together as it were a sorte of pretie chickens hopping hastely after the cheereful chucking of a brooding hen And where such amitie is enterlarded with honest pastime there all hollownes of hart is banished all playnnes is embraced and all good things doe prosper as a man might say friendship is a ring-leader to all happinesse and the guide that shewes men the high way to all worldly exercises But now some may aske me how men should make choyce of their friends and knowe by outward apparance the inwarde disposition of people so many looke smoothly so many flatter and so many hath clapped on such audacious countenances that the wisest may be beguiled when he least lookes for defaite It may bee aunswered that choyce ought to be made of proofe and not of fayre semblance but of constant perfection for such as casteth colours on cunning deuises and alwaies to cloke collusion crcepes finely in fauor with simpering and smiling to leade readie wits after their subtill intentions by their needles babble fruitlesse fauning often chaunge of vizage vnmanerly boldnes and daily attendance where no desart commaunds them the fayned friends of this world may be found and in the state of necessitie all true friendship is tryed And me thinkes they take no great paynes that accompanie men in their prosperitie and they merite no great thankes that desire to taste at all times other mens good fortunes so that by thrusting and pressing after those we hope to plucke somewhat from debates of it selfe it is no certaine signe of friendship that springs from a simple and playne affection Now many will holde question and say that Fortune must be followed sought for waited on flattered because she is a deceiuer and finely entertayned For that with rude and rusticall behauiour both fortune and friends will fling vs farre behinde that would march before our fellowes But I pray you is not the long proofe of craftie practises the extraordinary dissimulation of fine people a testimonie that they are no true dealers that worke with worldly wickednesse and policie to bee accepted as friends Then who should presently be called a faithfull follower thus some man may demaunde Such I say as in mens meanest calling and credite hath begun to fauour them and in their better estate doe honestly in all causes of reason equitie and iustice of iudgement discharge their dueties and leaue flatterie that openeth the doore of dubblenesse and fall flatly to the true order of playne dealing such I say that neither for fauor feare or fortune but dare speake as they thinke due reuerence obserued and doe rather cut off the festered flesh than feede and nourish a corrupted cancker Such whose loue and fidelitie lookes narrowly on all the bounds and limits of friendshippe and are so ielous ouer the friends they honour that they cannot suffer any thing to sound out of frame that may impeach hinder or appale the good name and credite of them they follow such whose studie diligence and waking regarde stands as a watch to giue warning and aduertise their friends of all inconueniences daungers sclaunders and eminent perils and hazardes such are the members most meete to be about a frend most worthie welcome most to bee liked loued and trusted and such are the blessed birds of the bosome that ne sings nor sayes nor makes signe of other thing than they present And the rest that loyter about crooked measures sounding and searching by deceites like Fishers that closely hides their hookes to see who they may catch take holde of and feele for their aduantage They are the slee smellers out of fortunate flowers that growes in happy mens gardens the prowlers after profite and preferment purchased by audacious practises the busie bodies that neuer stands still but turnes like a toppe to betray the trustie the tossed white froth of the Sea that makes a fayre shewe without substance which vanisheth away at the touch of euery mans finger and they are the swelling bubbles of the troubled water that are blowne with each litle blast ouer many a land and makes neither signe from whence they are come nor to what good ende and purpose they serue So sir seeing the swarmes of fayned friends the heapes of hollowe harts the abuse of infected mindes the musted faces couered with counterfaite good maners and the effect of true friendshippe vtterly mistaken in many poynts places of this world I trouble you no further with the reading of these lines hoping in your fauour and friendshippe as your affection shall mooue and my merites without presumption shall craue and require making a further present vnto you of a few verses handled as well as I could that were deuised for the setting forth of a Paper Mill which a great well willer of yours as good cause he hath so to bee hath builded by Darthford and brought to perfect frame and forme I trust to the great contentment of the Queenes Maiestie and benefite of her whole countrie as knoweth God who augment maintaine and blessedly vpholde her Highnesse long among vs and encrease your good credite with all vertuous disposition FINIS A DISCRIPTION And playne discourse of paper and the whole benefites that Paper brings with rehersall and setting foorth in verse a Paper myll built nere Darthford by an high Germaine called Master Spilman Ieweller to the Queenes Maiestie WHen sence of man sought out what Science was And found each Art through wit and study great Before long proofe could bring great thinges to passe In iudging head did many a hammer beat But triall had experience prooued good for practise skill on certaine surety stoode Then ignorance blinde gaue learned knowledge place so studious minde gaynde glory wealth and grace Some searcht for gold and digd deepe Caues in ground and some sought pearle and precious Iewels gay Some saylde the seas and wandred world full round to bring home goods that should the charges pay Some made fine silkes and veluets fayre and rich inuention still was dayly vsde so much That each deuice that coulde be put in proofe was set abroach and tried for mans behoofe But sure some Arts dath so surmount the rest that famous were the authors of the same Whose noble acts their worth so well exprest that writers pen shoulde but ecclips their fame Looke throughly then on that our elders did and bring to light their secrete knowledge hid And yeelde them lawde as their deserts doth craue for I

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