The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Mary Sidney who upon her marriage became the Countess of Pembroke was a writer translator and literary patron. In 1583 he married Frances teenage daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. The work enjoyed great popularity for more than a century after its publication.

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet courtier and soldier and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age.