Lewis Machin (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1607–09) was an English poet and playwright in the early 17th century. He may have worked with

Gervase Markham 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 publishe ...

on the play '' The Dumb Knight'' around 1601, although it is now argued that instead Machin revised Markham's original around 1608-09. In 1607 "certaine Eglogs" by "L.M" were appended to actor-playwright William Barksted's poem ''Mirrha the Mother of Adonis'', and Machin contributed a commendatory verse as well. Around the same time Machin worked with Barksted to revise and complete John Marston's '' The Insatiate Countess'' for the short-lived

Children of the King's Revels The King's Revels Children or Children of the King's Revels were a troupe of actors, or playing company, in Jacobean era London, active in the 1607-9 period. They were part of a fashion for child actors that peaked in the first decade of the seve ...

at the Whitefriars Theatre. It has also been suggested that Machin is the author of another of that company's plays, ''Every Woman In Her Humour'' (1609).Adams, Joseph Quincy. “''Every Woman in Her Humor'' and ''The Dumb Knight''.” ''Modern Philology'' 10.1 (1912): 413-432. ''University of Chicago Press''

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