A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grahame, Simon or Simion
Grahame, Simon or Simion (1570-1614).—B. in Edin., led a dissolute life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier on the Continent. 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 Burton his Anatomy of Melancholie. He became an austere Franciscan.