ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the results of a Rare Collocation Profiling search with the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database and Google search engine on Twelfth Night. Every discernible phrase and collocation in the play is checked with the search engine of the EEBO database to assess its rarity. Since Francis Bacon has speeches and letters that do not appear in EEBO, then Google searches can be carried out to obtain further matches. Spedding states that Francis Bacon obtained a MS report of the trial from one John Tollemach of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and Bacon’s speech seems to have been available to the reporter at the trial. With all Chapman’s correspondences occurring after 1602 he cannot be taken as a contributor to the Inns of Court versions, only a borrower.
