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114 F whom I know no more, than that ’tis aid, he has writ a Play, called,

Hippolitus, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1641. A Play, which Mr. Langbain ays, he never aw; the Author’s Name is to it, who took the Plot from that of Seneca, or the Phædra of Euripides.

The Hectors, another Play, has been by ome Catalogues attributed to this Author; but I cannot learn for any Reaon it hould be his, o you find it placed among the Anonymous Plays.

E was born at Stewards, a Seat in Rumford, in the Parih of Horn-Church, Eex, his Father was James Quarles, Eq; Clerk of the Green Cloth, and Purveyor to QuenQueen [sic] Elizabeth. He tudied firt at Chrit-Church, Cambridge, then at Lincolns-Inn; was Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia, Secretary to Bihop Uher, and Cronologer to the City of London. He uffered Perecution by the Government then in being, for a Book called, The Loyal Convert. The Troubles of Ireland brought him to die at Home, in the Two and Fiftieth Year of his Age, Sept. 8. 1644. He had Eighteen Children by one Wife, and lies buried in St. Foter’s Church, London. He writ one Play, called,

The Virgin Widow, a Comedy, 4 to. 1649.

He writ divers other Pieces, as a Book of Emblems, which has born many Editions; a Book of Poems, wherein is the Hitory of Sampon, Jonah, Ether, and Job Militant; Argalus and Parthenia; Enchiridion of Meditations, Divine and Moral; Pentalogia, or, The Quinteence of Meditation; The Loyal Convert, with ome others. R Thomas