" I am glad you have put me on the scent after old Quarles.

Quarles is a wittier writer, but Wither lays more hold of the heart.

Quarles thinks of his audience when he lectures; Wither soliloquizes in company with a full heart.

What wretched stuff are the "Divine Fancies" of Quarles!

Still, that portrait is a fine one; and the extract from "The Shepherds' Hunting" places him in a starry height far above Quarles, If you wrote that review in "Crit. Rev.," I am sorry you are so sparing of praise to the "Ancient Marinere;" so far from calling it, as you do, with some wit but more severity, "A Dutch Attempt," etc., I call it a right English attempt, and a successful one, to dethrone German sublimity.

Old Quarles, those kind of home-strokes, where more is felt than strikes the ear,a terseness, a jocular pathos which makes one feel in laughter.

"Young hopes, and love's delightful dreams," savor neither of Burns nor Quarles; they seem more like shreds of many a modern sentimental sonnet.

If old Quarles and Wither could live again, we would invite them into our firm.

" That is not my poetry, but Quarles's; but haven't you observed that the rarest things are the least obvious?

CHAPTER XII. WITHER, HERRICK, AND QUARLES.

WITHER, HERRICK, AND QUARLES.

Francis Quarles was born in 1592.

At all events, poetry favours the positive, and from the Emblems named of Quarles I shall choose one in which it fully predominates.

With honoured, thrice honoured George Herbert waiting at the door, I cannot ask Francis Quarles to remain longer: I can part with him without regret, worthy man and fair poet as he is.

(3) The homeliness and harshness of some of Cowper's language and versification, interchanged occasionally with the innocence of Ambrose Philips, or the quaintness of Quarles and Dr. Donne.

SEE Quarles, Marguerite Stuart.

The last collection that will claim our notice is that of Francis Quarles, which appeared posthumously in 1646 under the title of 'The Shepheards Oracles: Delivered in Certain Eglogues.

Quarles was a stanch Anglican, and he lashes Romanists and Precisians with impartial severity.

The date of the poem is doubtful, but Quarles lived till 1644, and after two years of civil strife the terms which the interlocutors in the above passage apply to the Puritan party can hardly be regarded as prophetic.

One of the best-known episodes, again, that of Argalus and Parthenia, was versified by Quarles in 1632, and, adorned with a series of cuts, went through a large number of editions before the end of the century, besides being dramatized by Glapthorne.

It is founded on the episode related in Books I and III of the Arcadia,[307] and possibly on Quarles' poem already noticed.

Pynson, Richard Pyper, John Quadriregio Quaritch, Bernard Quarles, Francis Queen's Arcadia Quetten und Forschungen R., J. Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Rambler Ramsay, Allan Randolph, Thomas Rapin, René Rapture Reid, J. S. Reinolds, see Reynolds.

QUARLES, FRANCIS, religious poet, born in Essex, of good family; a member of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn; held divers offices at the Court, in the city, and the Church; was a bigoted Royalist and Churchman, a voluminous author, both in prose and verse, but is now remembered for his "Divine Emblems," and perhaps his "Enchiridion"; he wrote in his quaint way not a few good things (1592-1644).

The volumes already published are: Increase Mather's "Remarkable Providences"; the poems of Drummond of Hawthornden; the "Visions" of Piers Ploughman; the works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury; the "Hymns and Songs" and the "Hallelujah" of George Wither; the poems of Southwell; Selden's "Table-talk"; the "Enchiridion" of Quarles; the dramatic works of Marston and Webster; and Chapman's translation of Homer.

The "Enchiridion" of Quarles is hardly worthy of the author of the "Emblems," and is by no means an unattainable book in other editions,nor a matter of heartbreak, if it were so.