ABSTRACT
This chapter discloses a radical alteration in the figuration of friendship, with Philip Sidney seemingly devising in the revision a new yet incompletely realized trajectory for the passions expressed as 'love-fellowship'. It proposes to build on Wendy Olmsted's argument by setting rhetorical change within an early modern context of the body, including its faculties, members, humors, and passions. Sidney's narratives the Old Arcadia thought to have been completed before 1580 and the New Arcadia produced by Fulke Greville in 1590-do more than reclothe the old language of friendship in early modern dress. In the Apology, Sidney cites Menenius Agrippa's use of a tale of the body's revolt from the belly to convince the people of the value of each civic member. In the Apology, Sidney uses Galenic language to describe the force by which the passions compel internal effects in an audience.
