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Excerpt from Mistress Davenant, the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets While I defer publication of the results of my investiga tions of the plays made from a personal point of View, and also of my complete rearrangement Of the Sonnets into their original books, for the guidance of the reader in following the present argument, I Shall in this preface give a brief chronological outline of my fuller theory, without advancing detailed evidence in its support. This, for the present, the reader may, if he wishes, regard merely as a working hypothesis. Whether he does so or not in the light of the evidence I adduce regarding Shakespeare's connection with the Ear. 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.