1. Introductory. 2. Illustration of problems and methods. 3. Proverb and proberb-idiom. 4. The less decent language of the time. 5. 'Latin' reference in Shakespearean English. 6. Spelling habits and pronunciation variants. 7. New external evidence: the language that Shakespeare 'found'. 8. Contextual evidence: single meaning. 9. Contextual evidence: the language that shakespere 'made'. 10. Shakespeare of Stratford. Index