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Excerpt from Axiophilus: Or Oxford Alias Shakespeare T has seemed to me worth while to offer to students of Shakespeare the translation of the pseudonym of one of Gabriel Harvey's favorite poets and I have therefore had printed these few pages, with the hope that they will be accepted as adding a bit of confirm atory evidence to Mr. Looney's theory that the writer of the poems and plays of Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford. In extending my essay somewhat past the translation of that pseu donym, I have quoted freely from those authors who have written on Oxford and on Harvey and have attempted in the text to give full credit to them. When I have quoted something that has recently been given to the world, it has been in order to show some differ ent connection than the one in which that statement has been already used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.