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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

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

hand and pen might either purchace commendation or publish to good people a matter that should merite some memory But finding my self vnfurnished of learning and barely seene in the artes liberall farre vnfit to touch or treate of Diuinitie I stoode amazed and knewe not what thankfull thing I should first goe about and take in hand to a good end and purpose And so a while bethinking mee minding to draw no stronger bow thau I could well shoot in looking into mine owne strength I sawe me most ablest and apt to be at commaundement of Prince Countrie and Friends In the honoring and seruice of whom I should studie to bring foorth some acceptable worke not striuing to shewe any rare inuention that passeth a meane mans capacitie but to vtter and reuiue matter of some moment knowne and talked of long agoe yet ouer-long hath bene buried and as it seemeth layne dead for any great fruite it hath shewed in the memorie of man The thing that I meane that hath layne so long in the graue of forgetfulnesse is faithfull friendship which Tully hath touched and a number of good authors haue written of but fewe in these daies haue obserued honored and followed And now to proceed forward with this freindship and shewe the degrees thereof orderly mee thinkes that the first braunch thereof is the affectionat loue that al men in generall ought to beare to their countrie For the which Musius Scaeuola Horatius Cocles Marcus Curtius Marcus Regulus and many moe hath left vs most noble examples Yea you shall reade that some although they were banished from their countrie yet they bore in their bowels and breastes to the hower of their death the loue of their countrie parents friends and familie In which euerlasting loue of theirs remayned such manly and honorable motions of the minde that many noble seruices of voluntarie goodwill were brought forth by them to the benefite of their countrie and recouerie of their first credite estate and dignitie Thus by a naturall disposition planted in the soule sensible store-house of stayed iudgement great exploytes were brought to passe and sondrie wonders of this world hath casely bene taken in hand And surely all these former examples with the hazarde of our forefathers liues brauely put in proofe and executed serues to no other ende as their meaning was but to teach those that came after with the like greatnesse of minde to followe the forerunners of all worthy renowne and worldly reputation So by this thousands may see man is not made for himself created to be king of earthly delights and placed amidst the pleasures of the worlde to doe what he pleaseth but chiefly to looke and with good aduisement to search how and in what sort he may be duetiful and beneficiall to his countrie Now peraduenture in this perillous age where many are puft vp with presumption and sedicious season of proude practises and headstrong people some serpentine sect that caries venome in their mindes and mortal stings in their tongues will holde a bad opinion and say that the earth is made for the children of men as the Sea is for the fish and that is mans natural countrie where he findeth foode liuing and credite in But this canckred kinde of rebellious conceite is such a gnawing worme in the conscience of man and so farre differs from all humaine lawes that he that but thinkes one thought of this nature is not only vnnaturall to his countrie but likewise vnblessed and vnhappie in all the soyles and countries he happeneth to dwell in For he that honoreth not in hart the soyle and seate of his natiuitie and despiseth the place where he tooke life sustenance nurriture and education besides good fortune and preferments the onely blessednesse here to reioyce of he doth degenerate and what birth and blood soeuer he be of we may call him a bace borne groome or a kindly bastard begotten out of time liuing out of order and of worse beleefe than an Infidell The birdes of the ayre the fish in the flood and the beastes on the earth loueth to haunt and behold the place of their procreation and the greatest Conquerors that euer were call them Kings or what you please though they went neuer so farre to obtaine victories yet they brought all the glorie home to their countrie and triumphed onely there where they were first fostered founde fauour and fortune and had from the beginning bene trayned and brought vp yea and after their life both Kings Prophets and other great men desired to haue their bones buried in their countrie And some of excellent iudgement held opinion that the loue of their countrie did farre surpasse the loue of their parents in defence of which they offred liues lands and goods and cared not what daunger they should thrust themselues into so that thereby they might doe their countrie any honour or seruice O then what a blemish and blot is this in the faces and browes of them that in a proude presumption perswaded by pestilent wittes abandoneth their country and would hazard on a peeuish opiniō if it were in their power to sel Prince people and patrimonie for a colde and bare welcome full of hollownes of hart in a strange Kingdome where cracked credite is lothsome and long mistrusted and seeldome or neuer comes to a good and honorable ende I can but wish their payment no worse nor better but such as Tarpeia foūd of the Latines and Sabines for selling vnto them the Capitoll of Rome a most notorious example reade it who pleaseth So if in those daies a great while agoe millions of men helde the loue and friendship of their countrie so deere and precious as in deede it ought to bee esteemed now in our ripened yeeres when wittes are mellowed and seasoned with the sweete sauour of long experience the folly and foule facts that by ouer great boldnes makes many runne mad should be a generall warning and teach all kinde of people to keepe the right and playne path of naturall affection towards their countrie and friends Now all these thinges there rehearsed before are written in way of friendship to the wild wanderers of this worlde who vndoubtedly wants but grace and good councell And the rest that followes hereafter in this little peece of prose is written to your selfe my honorable friend whose friendship I haue felt and sondrie moe haue tasted Let the deede shewe it selfe not writing this to teach you with presuming wordes any other course than your former iudgement and present consideration thinkes best to holde but onely to keepe the blaze of good will continually burning by feeding the flame with plying and putting in more oyle to the lampe For I acknowledge that you knowe that as the sinowes is needfull for the body the marrow for the bones and the blood for the life so friendship is most fittest to knit the ioyntes and mindes of men together and bindes them about with such brazen bandes

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