text:  But in the age of that poet the Greek tongue had arrived at its full perfection and they had among them an exact standard of writing and speaking; whereas the English language even in his (Dryden's) own age was wanting in the very foundation of certainty "a perfect grammar:" so what must it have been in Shakspeare's time? "The tongue in general is so much refined since then that many of his words and more of his phrases are scarce intelligible