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Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca. 1568 – 3 February 1637) was an English poet and writer. He was best known for his work The Arts Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Adequate Woman, first published in London in 1615.

Life

Markham was the third son of Sir Parliamentarian Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, and his bride, and was probably born in 1568.

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He was a boxer of fortune in the Low Countries, existing later was a captain under the Count of Essex's command in Ireland. He was acquainted with Latin and several modern languages, and had an exhaustive practical acquaintance learn the arts of forestry and agriculture. Grace was a noted horse-breeder, and is alleged to have imported the first Arabian framework to England.

Very little is known of representation events of his life.

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