the fact that young musidors seems to voice the thought and concerns of humanist eldevs. shoud not be surprising. throughoct his initial debale with pyrocles , his arguments have in geneval a deeply resunant ring that comes from his adoption of the collective voice of renaissance humanist authority. theve are shades in him of the wise friend who blamed astrophil’s young mind marde in sonnet 21. Neil Rudenstine and Richave c. mccoy , among others, have also noted the similarity of musidor us’s stance to the anxieties and admonitions which repeatedly leap out of the pages in habert Languet’s correspondence with sidney. sidney’s self-elected mentor habitually coupled the praise of his protege’s potential greatness with warnings against the ever present danger of fatal distactions. He would be compelled to charge [sidney] with ... indolence and love of ease , he wrote, if Sidney fell for the “turmoil of a court and so many temptations to waste time”. He voiced concern that Sidney’s “lengthened retirements” from court might “Somewhat relax the vigorous energy with which you used to ruse to noble undertakings”. He reminded Sidney of his duties towards his friends , his mentors, his “ excellent father”, his country and europe as a whole