text:  Those who call theirs the golden age of poetry have only this reason for it that they were then content with acorns before they knew the use of bread!" Then after a somewhat hasty and unconvincing examination of certain incorrectnesses and meannesses of expression even in Ben Jonson learned as he was he asks "What correctness after this can be expected from _Shakspeare_ or Fletcher who wanted that learning and care which Jonson had? I will therefore spare myself the trouble of enquiring into their faults who had they lived now had doubtless written more correctly