Sir Philip Sydney

My great uncle Mr Thomas Browne remembered him ; and said that he was wont, as he was hunting on our pleasant plaines, to take his table book out of his pocket, and write down his notions as they came into his head, when he was writing his Arcadia (which was never finished by him) : he made it young, and dying desired his folies might be burnt. These romancy plaines and boscages did no doubt conduce to the heightening of Sir Philip Sidney's fancy.