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- # Quarles' continuation, 1655.
## Overview
This is a subsection from a larger document, titled "Quarles' continuation, 1655.". It discusses John Quarles' continuation of Shakespeare's *Lucrece*, published in 1655. The subsection is of type "subsection" and was extracted on 2026-01-30.
## Context
This subsection [Quarles' continuation, 1655.](arke:01KG6S6KP3TN1CBG7KZ5KKD5X9) is part of [Section III](arke:01KG6S5HRFGJ1FBM87NDW94Z5Z) of a document, which is extracted from the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). The file is part of the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. The preceding subsection is [Duckling's 'Supplement.'](arke:01KG6S6KP07WQJ08SJ3DE7TK84), which discusses Sir John Suckling's interest in Shakespeare's *Lucrece*.
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The subsection focuses on John Quarles, son of Francis Quarles, who wrote a continuation of Shakespeare's poem *Lucrece*. This continuation, titled *The Banishment of Tarquin, or, The Reward of Lust*, was appended to a 1655 reissue of Shakespeare's *Lucrece*. The text notes that Shakespeare is described on the title page as "The incomparable Master of our *English Poetry* Will: Shakespeare, Gent.", indicating Shakespeare's reputation during the time of Cromwell's Protectorate.
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evidence that Shakespeare's poem was still familiarly cherished by men of letters is offered by the fact that John Quarles, son of Francis Quarles, the author of the *Emblems*, penned a brief continuation in six-line stanzas entitled *The Banishment of Tarquin, or, The Reward of Lust*. This was appended to a reissue of Shakespeare's *Lucrece* in 1655—the last of the seventeenth-century editions. The dramatist is described on the title-page as ‘The incomparable Master of our *English Poetry* Will: Shakespeare, Gent.’—a signal testimony to his repute at the time when Cromwell was Protector.
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