Simon Grahame

Simon (or Simion) Grahame (c. 1570–1614), born in Edinburgh, Scotland, led a dissolute life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier on the Continent of Europe. He appears to have been a good scholar, and wrote the ''Passionate Sparke of a Relenting Minde'', and ''Anatomy of Humours'', the latter of which is believed to have suggested to Robert Burton his ''The Anatomy of Melancholy''. He became an austere Franciscan.

A sonnet of Grahame's was published as part of the preface to the ''Tragicall Death of Sophonisba, by David Murray, Scoto-Brittaine'', John Smethwick, London (1611). Provided by Wikipedia