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A18752	A pleasant discourse of court and wars with a replication to them both, and a commendation of all those that truly serue prince and countrie. Written by Thomas Churchyard, and called his Cherrishing.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 5249; ESTC S105042	8,064	24

And Cupid shootes his shafts too fast The onely grace of earthly powre That was or is and so shall last The meane to make meane men to mount Yet court of no man makes account The path to hit prefarments right But when or how good hap must shoe The torch that giues a flattring light A blaze that quickly out will goe The candle cleere of comforts all Yet downe vntoucht the snuffe will fall The feeding hope of all good hap Till want coms home with weeping eie The smiling cloud where thunder clap Fals ratling from a pleasant skie The calmy aire that stormes doth hide Till winde bewraies a blustring tide The platform where all Poets thriue Saue one whose voice is hoarse they say The stage where time away we driue As children in a pagent play To please the lookers on somtime With words with bookes in prose or rime The mount where might and mercy dwels The one may kill the other saue The spring that maintains many wels Where thirsty throtes do water craue The nurse that milke and pap may giue To those that in great lack doth liue The ciuill sword of worldly sway That cuts off many a canker cleane The head that secrets can bewray And teach rash wits to keepe a meane The eie that sees both hie and loe Much further than our feete can goe The ground where plenty planted was VVhen bounties blossoms brought foorth frute Then gold was but esteemd as glas The prince so freely gaue a sute The onely spring and flowing spout VVhere all good turnes came flowing out The royall house of all repaire VVhere subiects swarme and still do run As thick as flies flocks to the aire In sommers day when shines the sun The paradise of earthly show VVhere many goodly frutes do grow The way to toull men on to spend As profit straight should rise thereon The ready rule to giue or lend Play best be trust till all be gon The place where promis is forgote Or where faire words make fooles to dote The ankor hold we trust vnto If cord and cable do not breake The gallant ship that may vndo VVith charge most men whose purse is weake The quiet port when tide coms in For all bare barks that harbor win The swelling sea where some do sinke That waues and surges swallow vp The doubtfull banket where some drinke Their bane out of a spiced cup The stage where many a part is plaid That makes some lookers on afraid The costly sumptuous golden hall That eats vp many a thatched hiue The bulwarke and the brazen wall Against whose state no force dare striue The stay and prop to weakest things And vnto man most comfort brings The flowre and blossom of each land That yeelds sweet sent like mirr or balme VVhich doth not on base fortune stand But safe in either storme or calme O God that guides each fortune now Preserue our court and kingdom throw FINIS COurt cannot pleas ech one that still doth craue No more than seas can make all sailers ritch Though few thereby do gaine yet some may saue And keepe a meane if folly be not mitch There foode is free and all belongs to health Fire rest and ease and pleasures of the eie Then for those ioies who bids them spend their welth Or follow gaine or waste their goods thereby If in one cloke or sute a Lordship stands Blame not the court but blame vnthrifty hands Though shining robes becoms a Courtier well Meane men may weare good garments of small price If waste will needes his patrimony sell Or play away his lands at cards and dice Court is not cause of that expence and charge No more than plow and carts makes Farmars poore If gallants gay cuts their owne clokes too large That they like brooms sweepe rushes from the doore Short capes in Court were fitter for a shoe In such light weeds of yore did Courtiers goe If men could sort themselues in Court aright The good may meete as good as he therein And stately Court hates all lewd maners light No coosning knack can there no fauour win Finenes and fraud are often frownd at thear Dissemblance shames to show a double face And though good wits in Court can speake full fear Rip iudgement soone finds out a courtly grace And will not be ore reacht with shoe or signe Of wily heads though they be ner so fine Court is a well and fountaine full of springs That runs to those that watch their seasons due Who to the cock their empty bucket brings When bounties streames spouts water fresh and new All cannot thriue that daily sell and by Some merchant prooues bankrout ere he be ware All shafts will not against ill weather flie They hit the marke that cunning archers are Court is not bound to pleasure eury one Court is a king and subiect vnto none If fauorits rise dame Fortunes babes they bee Begot and bred by sudden destnies lot Lads that good hap hath dandled on hir knee Tooke all their pap out of the sweete creame pot The rest are faire yoong children borne to soone Or out of time as many yoonglings bee No Planets birds nor darlings of the Moone Nor fixed stars that stands in highst degree But retrograde in some aspects but base Falne fro the clouds from Iupiters good grace Though many names to court these Poets giues Whose fained Art are full of fables vaine When they themselues by gifts of Princes liues And by the Court their betters far do gaine Court cares not for their stretched termes nor muse That in a moode finds fault with this or that Whose hie conceits doth out their pen abuse Which on the spleen may write they know not what Court thinks great scorne to stoup or seem so weake As answer make to any word they speake FINIS THe wars that marshall men do like For countries cause was first begun To shield and sword to launce and pike The lusty soldiers then would run And glad was he in towne or field Could force a forren foe to yeeld No walls nor rampire could hold out A lions hart in manly minde Men did in courage grow so stout They traueld far hot wars to finde And when these men abrode did rome They brought great skill and knowledge home Kings gaue them grace and honor great Fame sounded trumpet in their praise VVorld placst them in the highest seate So that like gods they raignd those daise Yea honord made of and extold Aboue the woorth of pearle or gold By them great empires did encrease Kingdoms were woon and conquerd all They held vp wars they made the peace They had the world at becke and call The sword subdues and makes them slaues That stands vpon their greatest braues Long in this course did soldiers liue Beloud and feard as victors are They felt no want but had to giue The people tooke of them such care Kings and their treasure eury way Kept noble soldiers from decay But when

A pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars with a replication to them both and a commendation of all those that truly serue Prince and countrie Written by Thomas Churchyard and called his Cherrishing Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for William Holme 1596. To the Honorable sir George Cary Knight sonne and heire to my Lord Chamberlaine gouernour of the Ile of Wight and Knight Marshall of England Tho. Churchyard wisheth great worldly hap encrease of honor and heauenly blessednes IN remembring many curtesies good turnes rare fauor and friendship flowing from your Honorable disposition in this ebbing age I vowed being found in seruiceable maner to requite but sicke am forced to write the opinions of many Lords Knights and Gentlemen captaines and cheefetaines of great charge touching the court and the wars And for that I serued vnder them I set downe the words I heard many of them speake of those two honorable points and discourses First at Lawndersey sir Thomas Wyet Wallop Bellingam many more knights there Then at Bollain the Lord Poynings sir Rafe Elderkar sir Iames Crofts and other knights there The Lord Gray at Giens sir Harry Palmer sir Lewis Dyue sir Richard Bray many more there At Hams the Lord Dudley and many gentlemen there At Callis the Lord Haward sir William Drury sir Anthony Ager sir Thomas Cornwallys and a number of knights and gentlemen there In Flaunders sir Anthony Sturley captaine Matson Sybyll Horssey Ieynks Plonket Hynde and many more captaines there At Metts in Lorraine captaine Farnam and in that towne the Lord Admirall that now is I being without with sundry English Gentlemen there In France captaine Krayar Sutton Twytty Blunt Dryuar and numbers of captaines there In Scotland where I was taken prisoner sir William Winter sir William Woodhouse and many knights and captaines there the Lord Clynton our Admirall then At Burty Cragge sir Iohn Luttrell At Dondee captaine Marry Church and sundry gentlemen there In Haddington sir Iames Wilford sir Arthur Manering and many other knights and captaines there In Lawtherfort sir Hue Wyllowby captaine Colby captaine Hales and many more there In Ireland sir William Bellingam sir Anthony Sellenger sir Henry Sydney sir Iames Crofts all these then deputies and many knights and captaines there at their commaundment In Anwerpe after these things my selfe the chiefe captaine there then In Brabant Zeland and Holland vnder sir Thomas Morgan sir Humfrey Gylbart and sundry knights there seruing a great season In Scotland before vnder the Lord Gray at the siege of Leeth where sir William Pellam sir George Haward sir Andrew Corbet and a number of knights were besides many captaines and gentlemen of good woorth In Gyens when it was lost a captaine my selfe and taken prisoner vnder the old Lord Gray sir Harry Palmar master Cripps and other captaines there In Ireland againe vnder sir Harry Sydney where sir Harry Harrington sir Edward Moore sir Nicholas Bagnall and a great company of knights and captaines were from whom I went to the noble Earle of Ormond In Garnzey with sir Thomas Leighton in good credit and charge a good while In Anwarpe againe when sir Iohn Norrice sir Thomas Morgan sir Edward Hobby and a number of honorable personages brought ouer Mounsior thither Thus making those seruices and many more a benefit to my knowledge gathering some od notes and sentences among those Honorable and marshall people I bethought me thereof now in my last sicknes peraduenture and willing not to smoother them vp in silence haue published as followes in verse what the opinion of many dead and aliue hath been both of honorable Court and Warres dedicating the whole iudgement thereof to your good consideration bicause you are Knight Marshall of England and knowes much of marshall causes After whose good liking I do commend the work to the whole world humbly desiring you to reade with good will iudge with milde discretion and rather commend than condemne not thereby crauing better credit than it may merit nor lesse thanks than an honest writer looketh for though not finely written yet faithfully meant in plainest termes bicause cunning phrases sauour of the schoole where seldome I haue stolen any great learning nor robbed good schollers of their bookes If God freely gaue I haue frankly bestowed it neither a niggard of my verses nor sparing of my words but spending my muse and matter as plentifully as though I had good store thereof take it in good part so the writer stands pleased God so knoweth who encrease you in honor and durable credit From my chamber in Richmond this new yeeres day 1596. Yours in all at commandement THOMAS CHVRCHYARD TEn thousand spend their time in vaine That haunteth either court or wars In both of them some hopes to gaine VVhen both God wot full few prefars Then bluntly said and truly told Long courting maketh yoong men old Not rich nor wise till wit be bought VVealth followes few that thither run Some trudge to court to bring home thought Or see abrode how shines the sun But leaues Gods blessing far behinde And liues vpon an aspiring minde The court is but a pleasant cage For birds to prune their feathers in A ioy to youth a paine to age VVhere many lose and few do win A step of state where honor stands To bring free harts in bondage bands A gladsome house of goodly gests That pay small seruice for their foode A body full of hollow brests VVhere hatreds egs brings foorth their broode A place of pompe and perill both VVhere finenes ioines with little troth A heaunly image heere on earth That lookes like saint without a shrine An outward signe and shew of mirth VVhere many smarts are cloked fine A glasse of steele in some od case VVhere each man may see his owne face A randevou where millions meet In one kings raigne or other sure A whetstone to a dulled spreet That many sweet conceits procure A pallace fraught with faire delite That prooues but blacke when it seemes white A drawing hope that hath no end In harts that labour still for fame A strong crossebowe that will not bend Till courtly archers wins the game A plot where cunning digs vp pence And yet a place of great expence Court is a maze of turnings strange A laborinth of working wits A princely seate subiect to change VVhere Goddesse like dame Pallas sits A fountaine frozen hard as ice VVhere cloked craft turnes oft the vice The well and spring that cooles the thirst And quencheth each consuming heat The cooling carde that harts doth birst The worme that life and lim doth eat The gladsome gazing mirror bright That showes brode day but brings darke night The field where fortune runs at bace And showes foule play where she doth please The parke the forrest and the chace VVhere Dians Deere lodge safe at ease The feasting house where surfets breed By tasting some things more than need The soile where Venus built hir bowre