Quarles
FRANCIS, an English poet; born near Rumford, England, in , England, in in 1592; was educated at Cambridge, and entered at Lincoln's Inn. In 1621 went to Dublin, where he became under-secretary to Archbishop Ussher. He was driven from Ireland, with the loss of his property, by the rebellion of 1641, and was appointed chronologer to the city of 1641, London. At the commencement of civil wars he wrote a work entitled the "Loyal Convert," which gave offense to the Parliament. Of the works of Quarles, in prose and verse, the most celebrated is his "Emblems," a set of Among designs illustrated by verses. are "Divine Poems," and his poems "Argalus and Parthenia." His "Enchiridion" is a collection of brief essays and aphorisms. He died Sept. 8, 1644 .