{\b Henry Constable}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 1562

{\b Date of Death}.: 1613

{\b Works}.

English poet and one-time envoy of the Pope. Constable published his chief 
work, Sonnets, in 1594. This was later republished in 1594 with a number of 
additions. His poems are also to be found in a number of collections. 

{\b Featured Works}.

'Damelus' Song to his Diaphenia', 'To God the Father'.

{\b General Comment}.

Henry Constable was educated at St Johns College, Cambridge, after which he 
converted to Catholicism and travelled to France, where he became a papal 
envoy and, in 1599, having already published his Sonnets in 1594, went to 
Edinburgh on the bequest of the French King. Some years later, in 1603, he 
went to London and was both imprisoned in and set free from the Tower of 
London in the same year, 1604. He died nine years later in Liege in 1613.