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Gervase Markham
16th/17th-century English poet and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman, first published in London in 1615.
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