“These exercises of my youth I dedicate to that worthy Sir Philip Sidney, so long since departed.”

His prose life of Sidney began as an offering of early poems to a dead friend · Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney

• Friendship
• Memory
• Poetry

“Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, councillor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.”

He chose service and friendship, not authorship, as the titles he wished remembered · Epitaph he composed for his own tomb at Warwick

• Friendship
• Identity
• Service

“With humble sails, after I had once ventured upon this spreading ocean of images, my apprehensive youth, for lack of a well touched compass, did easily wander beyond proportion.”

On how his early tragedies outgrew their design once imagination took hold · Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney

• Imagination
• Writing
• Youth