ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the results of a Rare Collocation Profiling (RCP) search with the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database and Google search engine on Love’s Labour’s Lost (LLL). While the EEBO database is used to test the rarity of a locution, a candidate for contribution need not have all their work in EEBO. The chapter explores the RCP results for Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Nashe, and the Shakespeare canon. While the early english books online (EEBO) database is used to test the rarity of a locution, a candidate for contribution need not have all their work in EEBO. Ben Jonson has several rare matches in the searches: They all follow LLL, and although he has the first use of ‘Promethean fire’ after LLL, he follows the other major writers in their use of the others. So he is not a strong candidate for contribution.
