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The naturall affection soone doth cease, And quenched is with Cupids greater flame: But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse: And them with maistring discipline doth tame Through thoughts aspiring, to eternall fame. Ed. Spencer.
In friendship, soueraigne 'tis as Mithridate, Thy friend to loue, as one whom thou maist hate. M. of M.
Ne certes can that friendship long endure, How euer gay and goodly be the style, That doth ill cause or euill end endure, For vertue is the band which bindeth hearts most sure. Ed. Spencer.
— Enmitie that of no ill proceeds, But of occasion, with the occasion ends, And friendship which a faint affection breeds, Without regard of good, lies like ill grounded seed. Ed. Spencer.
With vertue chuse thy friend, with vertue him retaine, Let vertue be the ground, so shall it not be vaine. S. Th. VViat.
Try frends by touch, a feeble frēd may proue thy strōgest foe▪ Great Pompeys head to Caesars hand, it was betraied so, ƲƲ. ƲƲarner.
In perfect friendship no suspect, for two in one are all, Communitie, or doubling ioy, or making griefe more small. Idem.
The truest friendship in miserie is tride, For then will none but faithfull friends abide, G. Turberuile.
Right true it is, and said full yore agoe, Take heed of him that by the backe thee claweth, For none is worse, then is the friendly foe, Though thee seeme good, all things yt thee delighteth: Yet know it well, that in thy bosome creepeth, For many a man such fiers oft times hee kindleth, That with the blaze his beard himselfe he singeth. E. of Surrey.
None can deeme right who faithfull friends do rest, While they beare sway and rule in hie degree: For then both fast and fained friends are prest. Whose faiths seeme both of one effect to bee. But then reuolts the first and fained guest, When wealth vnwindes and fortune seemes to flie, But he that loues indeed, remaineth fast, And loues and serues when life and all is past. S. I. Harr. Transl.
Oft times we see in house of meane estate, In fortunes bad, and chances ouerthwart: That men do sooner laie away debate, And ioyne in sound accord with hand and hart, Then Princes courts, where riches genders hate: And vile suspect that louing minds doth part. Where charitie is cleane consumde and vanished, And friendship firme, is quite cast out and banished. Idem.
Who so wants friends to backe what he begins, In lands farre off, gets not, although he wins. S. Daniell.
If fortune friendly fawne, and lend thee wealthy store, Thy frends conioined ioy, doth make thy ioy the more If frowardly she frowne, and driueth to distresse: His aide releeues thy ruth, and makes thy solace lesse. S. Th. Wiat.
They are not alwaies surest friends on whō we most do spend. W. VVarner.
True friends haue feeling of each others wo, And when ones hart is sad, all theirs is so. Ch. Middleion.
A golden treasure is the ••ried friend, But who may gold from counterfeits defend? Trust not to soone, nor yet to soone mistrust, With th'one thy selfe, with th'other thy friend thou hurtst, Who twines betwixt, & stears the goldē mean, Nor rashly loueth, nor mistrusts in vaine. Mir. of M.
— Friends are geason now a daies, And growe to fume before they taste the fier: Aquersitie bereauing mans auailes, They flie like feathers dallying in the winde. They rise like bubbles in a stormy raine, Swelling in words, and flying faith and deeds. D. Lodge.
Faint friends when they fall out, most cruel foemen be. Ed. Spencer.
Better a new friend, then an old foe is said. Idem.