The Abraham Cowley
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Shakespeare as Cowley; the Chandos portrait. From Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (London, The Folio Society, 1965); editor's copy. We have also seen offered a forged letter from Shakespeare to Cowley (perhaps = another forged letter to Nicholas Cowley the actor): peculiar, since Shakespeare died well before Abraham Cowley was born!

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