Thomas Churchyard's 1588 description of the relation between friendship and love of country prefigures the usual story about friendship in the years of the English Civil Wars, Commonwealth, Protectorate, and Restoration. He tells of enduring, intertwined loyalties to “countrie, parents, friends and familie.” His version, like most Renaissance humanist accounts of friendship, is masculine, relying upon “manly and honorable motions of the minde.” It ties the friends to the commonwealth, even after banishment; friendship manifests itself in noble acts that benefit the friends' country first of all, but then allow the friends themselves to regain “their first credite, estate and dignitie’ within the country that banished them. Against a backdrop of war and political exile in the 1640s–50s, the Cavalier poets idealize this kind of friendship in lyrics of retirement and country life; with other royalists, they hope for a “recoverie” of their political roles and economic resources that does not entirely manifest itself with the return of the monarchy in 1660.