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GERVASE MARKHAM (or JERVIS) (1568?-1637)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARKHAM (or JERVIS) (1568?-1637)  , See also:English poet and See also:miscellaneous writer, third son of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Markham of Cotham, See also:Nottinghamshire, was See also:born probably in 1568 . He was a soldier of See also:fortune in the See also:Low Countries, and later was a See also:captain under the See also:earl of See also:Essex's command in See also:Ireland . He was acquainted with Latin and several See also:modern See also:languages, and had an exhaustive See also:practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and See also:agriculture . He was a noted See also:horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arab . Very little is known of the events of his See also:life . The See also:story of the murderous See also:quarrel between Gervase Markham and Sir See also:John Holies related in the Biographia Britannica (s.v . Holies) has been generally connected with him, but in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, Sir Clements R . Markham, a descendant from the same See also:family, refers it to another contemporary of the same name, whose See also:monument is still to be seen in Laneham See also:church . Gervase Markham was buried at St See also:Giles's, Cripplegate, See also:London, on the 3rd of See also:February 1637 . He was a voluminous writer on many subjects, but he repeated himself considerably in his See also:works, sometimes reprinting the same books under other titles . His booksellers procured a See also:declaration from him in 1617 that he would produce no more on certain topics . Markham's writings include: The Teares of the Beloved (1600) and See also:Marie Magdalene's Teares (16o1) See also:long and rather See also:commonplace poems on the See also:Passion and Resurrection of See also:Christ, both reprinted by Dr A .

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Grosart in the Miscellanies of the See also:Fuller Worthies Library (1871); The most Honorable Tragedy of Sir See also:Richard Grinvile (1595), reprinted (1871) by See also:Professor E . See also:Arber, a prolix and euphuistic poem in eight-lined stanzas which was no doubt in See also:Tennyson's mind when he wrote his stirring ballad; The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse (1595), dedicated to See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Sir See also:Philip See also:Sidney; Devoreux, Vertues Teares (1597) . See also:Herod and See also:Antipater, a Tragedy (1622) was written in See also:conjunction with See also:William See also:Sampson, and with See also:Henry Machin he wrote a See also:comedy called The Dumbe See also:Knight (,6o8) . A Discourse of Horsemanshippe (1593) was followed by other popular See also:treatises on See also:horsemanship and farriery . See also:Honour in his Perfection (1624) is in praise of the earls of See also:Oxford, See also:Southampton and Essex, and the Souldier's See also:Accidence (1625) turns his military experiences to See also:account . He edited Juliana See also:Berners's Boke of See also:Saint Albans under the See also:title of The See also:Gentleman's Academie (1595), and produced numerous books on husbandry, many of which are catalogued in See also:Lowndes's Bibliographer's See also:Manual (See also:Bohn's ed., 1857–1864) .

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