Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), Cowley's friend and executor-editor, portrayed here as the Bishop of Rochester. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.
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