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thinges plaine in wordes, but secret and hidde in sense. Thomas
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her study of lexical meaning in Shakespeare's plays, Hulme
writes of "the gradual and piecemeal discovery of relevant
information" that characterizes the search for evidence about
Renaissance English. As much concerned with the manuscript
records of the period as with printed books, Hulme describes the
painstaking labour involved in locating and interpreting
handwritten texts from Shakespeare's time, and muses wistfully
about the comparatively straightforward task of investigating
the printed books of the period, evidence from