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New Words - As You Like It

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Topic: New Words - As You Like It

1. Source-Control Position

The preserved Neville Research wiki page is useful as a finding aid, but it is not itself a verified first-use or authorship source. This packet now treats the wiki list as the inherited lead layer and the v10 new-words rerun as the controlling local audit.

The v10 rerun applies the same strict method as the April v8 study:

target play: As You Like It in [local source path removed];
word unit: A0 lemma in the play database;
Shakespeare baseline: matched First Folio plays before the target play's database year, with Henry V excluded because it sits inside the same 1599 France/register problem;
Neville side: [local source path removed];
candidate rule: the lemma appears in As You Like It, is absent from earlier baseline Shakespeare plays, and appears in Neville v10.

Result: the v10 rerun found 19 As You Like It candidate lemmas, the same count as the v8 study. The most book-relevant items remain proposition, copulative, and, with caution, material.

The completed sense-and-source triage now ranks the results as follows: proposition is the strongest repeated diplomatic-register overlap; copulative is the most distinctive technical-word overlap but operates in sharply different registers; material is appendix-only; Amiens belongs to proper-name and source-history analysis rather than lexical innovation. The old wiki uncommon-word list remains a preserved lead layer, not a promoted evidence list.

2. V10 Candidate Triage

lemma	target hits	Neville v10 hits	Neville letters	drama plays 1590-1615	non-Folio drama plays	disposition
`proposition`	1	22	12	5	3	Strongest As You Like It vocabulary candidate; diplomatic-register recurrence, not print rarity.
`copulative`	1	1	1	6	5	High-color candidate because Neville's treaty-clause use and the play's comic use share a technical word; sense contrast must be stated.
`material`	1	8	7	18	13	Weak to moderate; Neville's diplomatic/military uses do not match Audrey's comic "material fool" without further sense work.
`amiens`	4	1	1	5	4	Geographic/proper-name overlap, useful for context but not lexical innovation.
`insomuch`	1	6	5	3	2	Candidate by strict method, but likely appendix material unless a phrase/sense argument emerges.
`residue`	1	2	2	4	3	Common administrative/accounting word; low evidential weight.
`bolden`	1	1	1	2	0	Rare in the drama database, but Neville context is later and sense work is needed.
other v10 candidates	11	mixed	mixed	mixed	mixed	`dullness`, `inconvenient`, `purlieu`, `rye`, `debility`, `reference`, `inquisition`, `portugal`, `extract`, `straits`, `divert`, `sundry`; keep as appendix/noise unless individually promoted.

3. Wiki-Layer Terms Not Promoted

The wiki page highlights uncommon or archaic items such as quintain, cicatrice, unbashful, roynish, ducdame, and scrippage. These should not be promoted into Neville evidence merely because they appear in the play's vocabulary list. They are absent from the strict As You Like It / Neville v10 candidate table generated in this pass.

The wiki also lists copulative, inquisition, and material, which do survive the v10 overlap method. Only copulative and proposition currently look strong enough for main-text discussion; material remains sense-fragile, and inquisition is low-weight unless a Spain/Inquisition argument is separately developed.

4. High-Value Source Snippets

proposition: As You Like It uses the phrase "resolve the propositions of a lover"; Neville letter_007 on 26 May 1599 repeatedly uses proposition for written diplomatic points presented to Henri IV and his ministers.
copulative: As You Like It uses "country copulatives"; Neville letter_014 on 18 July 1599 uses copulative for a treaty clause that should no longer be disjunctive.
material: As You Like It has Audrey's "material fool"; Neville uses material in letters about war supplies, news value, and commodities. The overlap is real at lemma level but weak at sense level.

Quoted Source Passages

As You Like It: resolve the propositions of a lover (act 03 scene 02:324).
As You Like It: country copulatives (act 05 scene 04:111).
As You Like It: by underhand means labored to dissuade him (act 01 scene 01:193).
Neville letter_014: make the clause copulative (letter 014:126).
Neville letter_007, 26 May 1599: More briefly in the proposition I presented in writing and for that and the rest I had proposed, he prayed me to deliver a memorial in writing (letter 007:63).
Late/control-only Neville letter_116: the proposition made unto me by du Vic (letter 116:67).
Neville letter_030: the King did underhand dissuade them from peace (letter 030:107).

Evidence note: proposition and copulative are now directly source-quoted on both sides. The first shows repeated diplomatic-register use, not print rarity. The second joins a treaty-drafting use to Touchstone's comic use, so the technical-word link is real but the senses and register are not identical. underhand/dissuade is a separate phrase lead adjacent to this packet, not part of the strict new-word table.

Proper-name control: Amiens

The direct 1592 Rosalynde scan and an independent local TCP witness contain the principal source characters Rosader, Saladyne, and Alinda but no Amiens or Amyens. This supports treating Amiens as an addition in As You Like It. It does not make the name a new word, and its single occurrence in the Neville corpus is contextual rather than lexical evidence. See play as you like it for the full source-witness control.

4a. Twitter Thread Batch 01 Notes

Requested thread #22 adds two controls to this packet:

copulative / copulatives: keep the existing v10 overlap, but note that the exact AYLI form is plural. A singular-only search misses the play form; exact copulatives in the 1590-1615 early modern plays database returns AYLI.
underhand plus dissuade: this is not part of the strict "new word" candidate table, but it is a strong phrase/collocation lead adjacent to this packet. AYLI has "by underhand means labored to dissuade him from it"; Neville letter_030 has "the King did underhand dissuade them from peace."

These notes are preserved in twitter thread research batch 01 france italy vocab. They supplement the v10 new-words rerun rather than replacing its stricter method.

5. BRO Sweep

A BRO transcription sweep for the promoted and wiki-highlighted terms found no direct As You Like It vocabulary addition. Hits for residue, material, or boldened occur in ordinary estate/accounting or metadata contexts, not in a play-facing lexical lane. The BRO material should therefore not be used to inflate this packet's vocabulary evidence.

6. Citations

Preserved Neville Research wiki page: wiki new words ayli.
v10 rerun summary: AYL TN NEW WORDS STUDY V10 RERUN.
v10 As You Like It candidate CSV: as you like it new to prior folio and in neville v10.
v10 watch-term audit: watch terms audit v10.
April v8 study retained for comparison: AYL TN NEW WORDS STUDY RESULTS.
Current vocabulary-control packet: french diplomatic vocabulary neville letters and shakespeare.
Related play packet: play as you like it.
Current corpus-version control: NEVILLE LETTERS CORPUS VERSION NOTE.

7. Research Verdict and Notes on Access

This packet is ready as a reproducible source map and candidate triage. Ready does not mean that the overlaps prove first coinage, borrowing, or authorship.
Do not quote the wiki page as if it established first usage. It is a preserved research list; the v10 rerun is the current local control.
The v10 rerun did not make material stronger. It confirms the lemma overlap while also confirming why the term needs caution.