This trick of bandying words is, of course, common in Shakespeare.

Other marks of Sidney's style belong similarly to poetry rather than to prose.
Chief of them is what Ruskin christened the "pathetic fallacy"-- the assumption (not common in his day) which connects the appearance of nature with the moods of the artist who looks at it, or demands such a connection.

In its day the _Arcadia_ was hailed as a reformation by men nauseated by the rhythmical patterns of Lyly.

A modern reader finds himself confronting it in something of the spirit that he would confront the prose romances, say, of William Morris, finding it charming as a poet's essay in prose but no more: not to be ranked with the highest..