In one section of it, a potion made by Gynecia to inflame the love of one of the princely protagonists is accidentally drunk by Basilius, the king of the title location.
In Woolf's Orlando, this work is described as the globe in which "all the seeds of English fiction lie latent." Mary Wroth's The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania was inspired by this work, which supplied the Gloucester subplot to King Lear. In one section of it, a potion made by Gynecia to inflame the love of one of the princely protagonists is accidentally drunk by Basilius, the king of the title location. One of its characters appears clad as a black knight in order to defend Pamela, but is defeated by a character who disguises himself as the Amazon Zelmane after falling in love with Philocrea. Focusing on the shipwrecked princes Pyrocles and Musidorus, FTP, name this pastoral romance ostensibly written to amuse the author's sister, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, by Sir Philip Sydney.
In Woolf's Orlando, this work is described as the globe in which "all the seeds of English fiction lie latent."
{Arcadia} [or The {New Arcadia}]