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Francis Quarles 1592-1644, English poet. His best-known work is Emblems (1635), a book of moral and religious verse. Though not an ardent royalist, he wrote pamphlets during the Commonwealth upholding the divine right of kings. Enchiridion (1640) is his collection of prose aphorisms.

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Quarles, Francis (1592–1644), religious poet. He was for a time secretary to Abp. J. Ussher and later chronologer to the city of London. He published a collection of biblical paraphrases under the title Divine Poems (1630) and two emblem-books: Emblems (1635) and Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man (1638). In his later years he wrote devotional prose; his Enchiridion (1640), a collection of thoughts on religion and morals, achieved great popularity. Though often overladen with conceits and epithets, his poetry shows deep religious feeling.

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