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Heminges and Condell dedicated the First Folio to Pembroke and his brother, Philip, and referred to their enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays in performance. Pembroke is a leading candidate for the friend and patron of Shakespeare to whom many of the sonnets were addressed, although no concrete proof exists for this identification. Oliver's miniature, painted when Pembroke was in his early thirties, shows him to be a fair-skinned man with light auburn hair and beard.
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