A tipe or figure of friendship. VVherein is liuelie, and compendiouslie expressed, the right nature and propertie of a perfect and true friend. Also a conclusion at the end in the praise of friendship. Written by. W.D. Dorke, Walter. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A20658 of text S105389 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 7060.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 20 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 7 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A20658 STC 7060.5 ESTC S105389 99841118 99841118 5677 <idno type=""/>

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Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 419:7. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A20658) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 5677) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640; 419:07). A tipe or figure of friendship. VVherein is liuelie, and compendiouslie expressed, the right nature and propertie of a perfect and true friend. Also a conclusion at the end in the praise of friendship. Written by. W.D. Dorke, Walter. [12] p. By Thomas Orwin, and Henry Kirkham, mprinted [sic] at London : 1589. Dedication signed: Walter Dorke. Signatures: A⁴ B². Running title reads: The figure of friendship. Identified as STC 7060+ on UMI microfilm. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Friendship -- Early works to 1800. eebo A tipe or figure of friendship. VVherein is liuelie, and compendiouslie expressed, the right nature and propertie of a perfect and true friend. Also a Dorke, Walter 1589 14 3425 3 0 0 0 0 0 8.76 B The rate of 8.76 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A TIPE OR FIgure of Friendship . Wherein is liuelie , and compendiouslie expressed , the right nature and propertie of a perfect and true friend .

Also a conclusion at the end in the praise of Friendship .

Written by . W. D.

Non aurum , non adamas , fulget splendidius , quam bonorum mentes consentientes .

●mprinted at London by Thomas Orwin , and Henry Kirkham . 1589.

TO THE WORSHIPful and worthie fauourers of learning , Master William Cravne , and and Master William , Parker , Citizens and Merchants of London W. D. wisheth allearthly prosperitie , and heauenly felicitie .

THE ancient Grecians ( as Aristotle writeth ) accustomed to erect the Temples of the Graces called Charites in the midst of their Cities , to the ende that the Citizens might thereby be admonished of Amitie , mutuall Beneuolence , & Charitie : In regard whereof worshipfull friendes , ) considering with my selfe the imbecillitie of our nature , the malignitie of mortall mindes , and the dangerous daies of this our yron age , finding a lamentable defect of Friendship , and fearing a finall fall & decay of the same ; I , not wallowing in wealth , being farre from the abilitie of building a Temple of the Grecian Graces , haue according to my slender facultie framed a Figure fully fraught with the glorious gifts of a Goddesse : more worthie to be purtraied with the cunning pencill of Protogenes , than so dimlie adumbrated with the running penne of Agatharcus . Which if it deserue not to be scituated in the midst of the Citie as the Grace Aglaia , nor to bee placed on some high pinnacle as the Image of Minerua , yet it may be suffered in the corners and Suburbes of the same in the honour of Amicitia . Through whose beneuolent aspect and goodnesse , some men may bee perhaps the sooner moued to Amitie , Friend●hip , and gratefulnes . We read that Apelles by a picture caused the Aegyptians to abhorre & hate derraction , as a monstrous copesmate of vices , & I wish this present Figure may be analectiue to our Anglians to entertaine & imbrace Friendship as a mightie companion and aide to vertues . And forasmuch as Friendship doth chiefly consist inter duos , and can haue no essence but inter bonos , I haue been the more emboldened ( although vnknowen ) to presume of your Worships fauourable acceptance hereof : who , as popular fame pronounceth , as wel for your accustomed curtesie towards all men , as also for your continual Amitie and brotherly loue one towards another in faithfull societie , doo rightly resemble friendships nature and propertie : to whome I humblie present and offer the same . Wherein , if my presumption shal breed preiudice , or cause me to be checked with dislike , I shal be choked with despaire for euer practising my pen againe in anie such petite pamphlet , yea though it were to my familiar frends . Thus wishing your Worships all manner of temporall benefites , and spirituall blessings , I end and humblie take my leaue .

Your Worships to vse : Walter Dorke . Inuitat ad magna qui gratanter suscipit modica .
The Figure of Friendship .

AS the life of man generallie , lieth open to many miseries , so is it speciallie relieued by two remedies , according to that worthie saying : Tristia cuncta exsuperans aut animo , aut amico . That is to say all things are to be ouercome , either with the fortesied power of a patient minde , or with the fortunate presence of a faithfull friend . What comfort can there bee more propitiate or present to a penciue mind , than to powre out the plaints thereof into the secret bosome of a sincere friend , by whose sweete communication is receaued a sodaine delight , and soueraigne consolation , as a most cordiall medicine against any corrasiue .

Architas of Tarento teacheth vs that life is no life being led without the loyal loue and liking of some that are liuing : neither is his ioy , any ioy , that dooth not enioy some friend with whome he may be iointly ioyned in societie : for if a man should climbe vp to the skies , & take a ful view of the brightnesse of the heauens , and contemplate the beautifulnesse of the starres : and behold all the wonderfull workes of GOD vpon the face of the earth : the admiration thereof would be but vnpleasant without some friend to whome hee might make relation of the same .

Scipio Minor when he went foorth of his house at any time would earnestly endeuour himselfe to finde out some companie among whome hee would make one his familiar friend before he retourned home againe : saying there is no better possession than the fruition of a friend .

Titus Vespasianus the Emperor on a certaine time finding by feeling his owne conscience that he had not pleasured any person the day passed , complained with this clause , Diem Amici perdidi . I haue ( saith hee ) lost a day , by neglecting the duetie of a friend .

Dionisius the Tirant was so amazed at the friendship of Damon and Pithias that it translated his minde from being tirannous towards them , to become almost amorous with them , as it may appeare by his owne petition . Rogo vt me quoque in vestram amicitiam recipiatis . I beseeche you ( saith he ) receaue me also into your sacred societie .

King Darius doubted not to say , hee had rather enioy his faithfull friend Zopirus free from wounded face and deformitie , then a hundred such cities as Babilon with al their welth and superfluitie .

Achilles being demaunded of Aiax , which were the greatest labours that euer hee susteined ; answered , the labours that hee endured for his friends . And beeing againe demanded of the same , what trauailes and paines seemed to him most pleasant : said , the trauailes and paines he tooke for his friends . Signifying thereby , that a man indued with an heroicall heart should alwaies bee inflamed with a desire of doing good to his friend . And to the like end and purpose , a certain Philosopher compared a perfect friend to a good proportioned horse in seauen properties as followeth , hauing A little head by humble conuersation . A sharpe eare to be quick of hearing & ready at euery call . A soft mouth to the end his tongue be temperate . A hard hoofe to endure trauaile . An open hand to doo good deedes . A sure foote to continew in amitie . A bay colour for his good renowne . Some also affirme that true friends ought to bee like mulberie trees which bring foorth their fruite at such times , that they neither feare the frosts of May , as the vines doo ; nor the mistes of October , as the Peaches and Quinces doo . Thus among the auncient Romaines and Grecians friendship hath been had in great reuerence , but throw the iniquitie of our time it is now become , tam rara auis in terris , that a man may as soone see a black Swan , as find out a faithfull friend .

And here I imagine some man may aske me a double question . First , whether the late famous Famelie of loue , which began to creep in among vs , haue any fellowship with Friendship . Secondly , whether the Holy league may be linked in the golden chaine of charitie , or contained in the siluer band of amitie . To them both I answere negatiuely : and first as for the familie of loue , I thinke them fitter to be termed the familiars of lust , and of the familie of Lucifer : they are a sect giuen to sensualitie , stirred vp by some infernall Furie , to make a confusion of al things generallie , the which is so odious that as I loath to think of it , so wil I leaue to speak of it .

And as for the holy league , which some call the helly lake or hellish legion , how farre they are from amitie or honestie , France can best Iudge , of whose loyaltie they haue had experience but too lately . The first original and birth of them was like to an vntimely monster ripped out of the bowells of rebellion , and fostered vp with the poysoned teats of treason , and will be still mainteyned by their mistres abhomination , vntill the breath of Gods wrath worke their destruction . Wherfore the Friendship that is spoken of in this place , is not the tirannicall friendship of the holy league , nor the filthie friendship , of the false named familie of loue , nor the froward friendship which a man may finde at Billingsgate for a boxe on the eare , nor the profitable friendship which is among Merchants , nor the pleasant friendship which is among Courtiers , nor the common friendship which is among Clownes : but it is the true , perfect , and vnfeyned friendship , which is neither for pleasure partely , nor for profit chiefely , but for vertues sake onely .

And because no man should be deceiued , as the Painter who supposed light colours to be linnen cloath , I haue set downe certaine Articles , precepts , or statutes of the lawe of Amitie appertaining to the foresaid Figure : the which , whosoeuer dooth not obserue and performe , cannot obtaine the name of a sincere friend .

First , That Friendship is to be esteemed more than all wordly things .

2 Friendship is onely among good men , and cannot be where vertue is not .

3 A faithfull Friend is as a mans owne selfe .

4 Friendship must not be desired for profit or gaine .

5 Friendship cannot be changed no more than Nature , but is of continuance .

6 Couetousnes is a great plague to Friendship .

7 Flatterie is an vtterenemie to Friendship .

8 A man must neither grant to his Friend , nor request anie thing of him that is vnlawfull or vnhonest .

9 If our friends conspire against the commonwealth , we ought to forsake them , and also reueale them .

10 Friends must not flatter , but boldly and freely aduertise , admonish , and counsell one another .

11 The chiefe triall of a Friend is in time of necessitie .

12 True friendship is hard to be found amongst great men .

13 A faithfull Friend in weale and woe is all one .

14 A Friend must neither be a tale carrier , nor a tale creditour .

15 Friends ought to remember good turnes .

16 A reuerent and modest bashfulnesse ought to be in Friendship .

17 Pleasant speaches and curteous manners bee not the worst sawces in Friendship : but lumpish sadnesse , and sullen sowrenesse ought to be in anie wise shunned .

18 A trustie Friend is a great treasure .

19 We cannot doo too much in Friendship .

20 Among Friends all things should be common .

Finally , they are all included in this definition .

Friendship is a perfect consent and agreement with beneuolence & charitie in all things , appertaining as well towards God as men .

These precepts duely considered , a true Friend may bee easily discerned , & yet you may sooner by definition declare what he is , than by demonstration shew where he is : for friendship described in this forme and fashion hath been long since as one banished from euerie Nation , not hauing any certain place to make abode in : No not in Rome ; for they are too couetous , superstitious , and vainglorious : Not in Turkie ; for their Mahomet is too monstrous : in India , they are too rude and barbarous , in Italy proud and ambitious , in Spaine disdainfull , vile and vicious : in France craftie , fierce and furious : in Germanie and Denmarke they dedicate themselues to Bacchus . But I would I could iustly report our selues to be cleere from all these vices , & more apt to embrace Friendship here in England : for that it hath the name and fame to be a most flourishing Iland , where religion hath appeared , where peace and concord hath been placed , and the people accounted blessed manie yeares ; which God continue for euer . And here in this point , I cannot passe without some reuerent and honorable mention of the Quéenes most excellent Maiestie : neither can anie man sufficiently admire the most absolute and rare perfections of her Highnesse heroicall minde ; by whose regall beneuolence & bountie , full many are made happie , whose great mercie , abundant naturall clemencie , & vnspeakable lenitie ( euen towards her greatest enemies ) do merit immortal memorie . And if I shuld particularly speak of her Maiesties mightie Friendship to forreine Princes : if I should declare her gracious inclination and readinesse in aiding the oppressed : if I should shewe her godlie zeale in planting the Gospell : and to be short , if I could but in the least part expresse her princely care , pitie , and pietie towards her owne people and countrey , it woulde séeme such , and so great , that it might well make all other Princes and Potentates rather amazed to heare it , than apt to imitate it . What subiect would not shew himselfe as faithfull as Zopirus ? What Courtier would not contend to be as constant as Curtius ? What Noble man would not offer both life and seruice , as farre foorth as King Codrus to the good of so gracious a Gouernesse ?

Wherefore , if Friendship were thus imbraced in the Court , there should be no Gnatho so often with filed tongue flattering , nor Thraso so commonly with brazen face bragging : nor Davus so continually with double heart dissembling . Currifauourers and clawbackes , should be contemned as irksome and perillous : Sicophants and Shifters , should be pronounced as execrable & odious : Parasites and platter-friends , should be proclaimed as pestilent and pernicious .

In like manner in the Citie , if they would whip out the spaniels that will fawne when they are emptie , and beat out the dogges that will bite when they are full , and feare away the crowes that will eate vp quicke bodies , and flap out the flies that will sting Alexander , and ridde themselues of the Friers fleas that are bred in euerie corner ; then should they not haue so manie wilful murthers to molest them in the day , nor so manie secret robberies to disquiet them in the night : then should not our hearts be so much heated with hatred & spitefulnesse , nor our tongues so tipped with taunts and bitternes , nor our déeds so distained with mischiefe and noughtinesse : then should reason rule onely in the head , & treason should be trodd vtterly vnderfoote : then should Cities bee gouerned peaceably , and people in all places liue prosperouslie : which God grant continually .

SO necessarie , great & infinit are the commodities of Friendship , that they seeme to take the Sunne out of the world , which would remooue Friendship from amongst vs : without the which , nothing is so well staid , but it may bee soone destroyed , nothing so strong but it may easely be beaten downe , nothing so firmly settled but it may be vtterly subuerted : yea without Friendship no house can be wel guided , no Citie well gouerned , no Countrey safe preserued , no State long continued , no nor anie thing in the vse of man rightly ordered . It is so conuenient for the Court , and so fit for the Countrey ; it is such a treasure abroad in the warres , and such an ornament to the Citie in time of peace ; that as Tully testifieth , there is no gift giuen of God to man ( Sapience only excepted ) more agreeable to nature , more comfortable to the heart , more pleasant to the minde , or more profitable to a Publique weale : although some rather regard riches , other more esteeme health , manie chieflie preferre honour , most of all vainely delight pleasure : but yet neither the vse of riches , nor the worship of wealth , nor the praise of honour , nor the delight of plesure , nor the happines of health , may bee compared with Friendship : for which way soeuer thou takest , it turneth with thee : if thou goe forward , it followeth thee : if thou call , it is at hand : if thou looke for it , it is linked vnto thee : in no place is it excluded , at no time out of season , in no cause troublesome : wherefore it may be well said , that wee vse neither water , nor fire , nor earth , nor aire , in more places than we doo Friendship . It maketh prosperitie to shine most glorious , and causeth aduersitie to seeme nothing grieuous . It suffereth neither the heart to be daunted , nor the courage in any case quailed : wherefore being absent , yet are they present : being needie , they haue inough : being poore , they haue plentie : being weake , are strong : yea and I had almost said that which is more strange , being dead are aliue : insomuch , that the death of the one seemeth blessed , and the life of the other nothing blemished , so great is the honor , so gracious the remembrance , so godly the zeal that is bred in Friends one toward another . He that loketh vpon his faithfull Friend , doth behold a perfect patterne of his owne person , being as it were an Alter ego , that is another himselfe . What was it that caused Phocion to say , he neuer denied any thing to his faithfull friend Nicocles , was it not Friendship ? What was it that vrged Damon to yeelde himselfe a pledge for the life of his companion Pithias , was it not Friendship ? What was it that mooued Titus to come downe from the Bench of authoritie , and accuse himselfe to acquite Gisippus from miserie , was it not Friendship ? What was it that inflamed Pilades to present his owne person to saue the life of Orestes , was it not Friendship ? To be short , what was the reason that the two honourable Romanes , Scipio and Laeli●●s so greatly loued : insomuch that one house serued them both , one face , one ioint studie , one delight , one consent in all things : not onely in priuate affaires , but also in publique , in trauailes , in voyages , in soiourning , at home and abroad all were alike common : was not this a laudable kind of Friendship ? Yea , to make our ful period , ( thogh Friendships praise be infinite ) such is the force therof , that mightie Kings haue desired it , it is so glorious : famous Philosophers haue honoured it , it is so specious : cruell tyrants haue been amazed at it , it is so victorious : al men in general haue praised it , it is so precious : and yet few haue effectually at any time attained vnto it , it is so miraculous .

FINIS .