All's Well That Ends Well

Topic: All's Well That Ends Well

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Pervez Database manual-PASS evidence bank lists All's Well That Ends Well with 27 PASS rows.
• The close-reading compilation links the play to Neville letters through lemmas including imposition, passport, vendible, overture, and papist.
• The direct Folger text witness contains hawking and deer language in 1.1 and 1.3.
• The same witness contains military and projectile language in 2.1 and 3.2.
• The same witness contains metal and forged-language in 1.1 and 2.1.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

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3. Dating and Historical Context

• This packet is being built from direct Folger scene reading and the Pervez Database alignment compilations.
• No separate local Neville wiki page for All's Well That Ends Well has yet been incorporated into this packet.

4. Cannon References

• In 3.2, Helen says:

“the mark / Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers / That ride upon the violent speed of fire”

5. Hunting and Hawking References

• In 1.1, Helen remembers:

“His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls”

• In 1.3, the Clown says:

“they may jowl horns together like any deer i' th' herd.”

6. Metallurgy, Iron, Furnace, or Forge References

• In 1.1, Parolles says:

“That you were made of is metal to make virgins.”

• In 2.1, Parolles says:

“Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals.”

• In 1.1, Bertram says:

“The best wishes that can be forged in your / thoughts”

7. Other Relevant Historical or Local References

• In 3.2, Helen says:

“here's my passport.”

• In 4.3, the Second Lord says:

“I hear there is an overture of peace.”

• In 4.4, Diana says:

“Go with your impositions, I am yours”

• In 1.1, Parolles says:

“Off with 't / while 'tis vendible”

• In 1.3, the Clown says:

“old Poysam the Papist”

8. Neville Letter Alignments

• The close-reading compilation links 3.2 (passport) to Neville’s letter_014 (18 July 1599), where he discusses the King’s or Admiral’s passport.
• The same compilation links 4.4 (impositions) to letter_014, where Neville objects to customs impositions.
• It links 1.1 (vendible) to letter_014, which describes goods as “not being vendible almost in any other place.”
• It links 4.3 (overture) to Neville’s letter_036 (13 Nov. 1599), which asks whether Cecil will “give any ear to the overture.”
• It links 1.3 (Papist) to letter_036, which discusses the Pope’s bull and English papists.

9. Quoted Source Text

Direct play text (Folger)

• 1.1: “His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls”
• 1.1: “That you were made of is metal to make virgins.”
• 1.1: “Off with 't / while 'tis vendible”
• 1.1: “The best wishes that can be forged in your / thoughts”
• 1.3: “old Poysam the Papist”
• 1.3: “they may jowl horns together like any deer i' th' herd.”
• 2.1: “Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals.”
• 3.2: “here's my passport.”
• 3.2: “the mark / Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers / That ride upon the violent speed of fire”
• 4.3: “I hear there is an overture of peace.”
• 4.4: “Go with your impositions, I am yours”

10. N-gram Research

• In the codex-neville-ngram-report rare-bigram ranking, All’s Well That Ends Well ranks 14 with 171 shared rare bigrams.
• In the same folder’s rare-trigram ranking, the play ranks 11 with 275 shared rare trigrams; in the Jaccard-normalized trigram table it ranks 5 with a Jaccard score of 0.008013988051872359.
• The Rare_Phrases_Neville_Shakespeare.md report preserves one of the strongest exact phrase findings for this play:
• “I beseech your honour to”, found 10 times in Neville letters and said there to appear in only 2 plays across the database; the play instance is All’s Well That Ends Well 5.2

11. Citations

• Evidence_Bank_AllPlays_PASS.md, Pervez Database manual-PASS evidence compilation.
• Top10_Letter_Affinity_CloseReading_Draft.md, Pervez Database close-reading synthesis.
• Rare_Phrases_Neville_Shakespeare.md, Pervez Database exact rare-phrase report.
• neville_phrase_instances_dated.txt, dated Neville-letter instances for the rare-phrase report.
• neville_rare_bigrams_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database rare-bigram play ranking.
• neville_rare_trigrams_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database rare-trigram play ranking.
• neville_rare_trigrams_jaccard_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database Jaccard-normalized trigram ranking.
• Neville_Letters_Corpus_v8.xml, direct local letter corpus witness for letter_014 and letter_036.
• Shakespeare, William. All's Well That Ends Well. Folger Shakespeare Library text witness:
• front_matter.txt
• act-01_scene-01.txt
• act-01_scene-03.txt
• act-02_scene-01.txt
• act-03_scene-02.txt
• act-04_scene-03.txt
• act-04_scene-04.txt

12. Notes on Access

• This packet was built from direct scene-by-scene reading of the Folger text witness plus the Pervez Database evidence compilations.