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traits to Granger. Markham appears to have been a good 

 soldier, as well as a good scholar. He published in 4to. 

 1623, "The Country House-Wife's Garden." He wrote 

 Herod and Antipater, a tragedy. Langbaine speaks very 

 much in his praise, and seemingly not without reason. Dr. 

 Dibden, in his " Library Companion," says, " on many ac- 

 counts does Markham seem entitled to more notice and com- 

 mendation." He translated Leibault's Maison Rustique, in 

 1616, in 4to. or small folio, and augmented it with many 

 additions from Oliver de Serres, and others. Weston, in his 

 Catalogue, says he re-printed the editions in 1614 and 1631, 

 of Barnaby Gooche's Husbandry. He published many books 

 on husbandry, on fowling, on angling, on military discipline, 

 on horsemanship. Many of their titles are enumerated in 

 Langbaine, and in Weston, and they appear all to be more 

 fully stated in Watts's Bibl. Brit. Much information, as to 

 Markham, may be seen in vol. ii. of the Censura Literaria; 

 and in Sir E. Brydges's edition of Phillips's Theatrum Poet- 

 arum Anglicanorum, appears, perhaps, the best list of his 

 works, with a brief memoir.* 



* I subjoin a few extracts from the first hook of his English Husbandman, 

 4to. 1635 : "A garden is so profitable, necessary, and such an ornament and 

 grace to every house and housekeeper, that the dwelling-place is lame and 

 maimed if it want that goodly limbe, and beauty. I do not wonder either at 

 the worke of art, or nature, when I behold in a goodly, rich and fertill soyle, 

 a garden adorned with all the delights and delicacies which are within man's 

 understanding, because the naturall goodnesse of the earth (which not en- 

 during to bee idle) will bring forth whatsoever is cast into her; but when I 

 behold upon a barren, dry, and dejected earth, such as the Peake-hills, where 

 a man may behold snow all summer, or on the East-mores, whose best hearb- 

 age is nothing but mosse, and iron-stone, in such a place, I say, to behold a 

 delicate, rich, and fruitful garden, it shewes great worthinesse in the owner, 

 and infinite art and industry in the workeman, and makes mee both admire 

 and love the begetters of such excellencies." 



And again, " For the situation of the garden-plot for pleasure, you shall 

 understand, that it must ever bee placed so neare unto the dwelling-house as 

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