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Quarles, Francis (1592–1644)| English poet. His Emblemes 1635 is a collection of poems illustrating a series of symbolic engravings. Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man 1638 was a similar work. |
| Other works include Hadassa 1621, Sion's Elegies 1624, Sion's Sonets 1625, and Enchiridion 1640–41, aphorisms. |
| Quarles was born in Romford, Essex, and studied at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn, London. He was cup-bearer to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia 1613, secretary to Archbishop Ussher in Armagh, Ireland, about 1629, and chronologer of the city of London 1639. As a Royalist, he saw his fortunes decline with the Civil War. |
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