Quotes:Quarles, Francis

Zirkoff, Boris

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644). English poet, b. at Romford, Essex, and baptized May 8, 1592; d. Sept. 8, 1644. Educated at Christ's college, Cambridge, 1608, and Lincoln's Inn. Was made cup-bearer to the Princess Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, 1613, remaining abroad for some years. Around 1629 he was appointed secretary to Ussher, the primate of Ireland. Returned to England about 1633, and spent the next two years in the preparation of his Emblems. Was made city chronologer, 1639. At the outbreak of the Civil War he took the Royalist side, drawing up three pamphlets, 1644, in support of the king's cause. Married in 1618 Ursula Woodgate, by whom he had eighteen children.

His Emblems, originally published in 1635 (also Edinburgh, 1857), consists of paraphrases from the Scriptures followed by original epigrams, and rather grotesque illustrations. The work became immensely popular at the time.

H. P. B.'s quoted verse is from a poem called *Job Militant: with Meditations Divine and Moral, 1624.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 472