I could not understand how it was that the New York police had been made to believe in the identity of a man falsely representing himself to be Harvey Farnham, yet I was convinced that in some devilish way even they had been Cozened.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson
As for me, I do not believe one word of the tale, as I have said before: and I say that it is best to destroy the letters, to tell Doctor Tonge that he is a damned fool, if not worse, so to be Cozened, and to say no more of it.
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson
Tale of the Two Sharpers Who Each Cozened His Compeer v.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton