I think the line was pointing out Shakespeare's tendency to just make up words and coin phrases as he needed. Had someone been "protecting" the language, the En

I think the line was pointing out Shakespeare's tendency to just make up words and coin phrases as he needed. Had someone been "protecting" the language, the English language we know today would have been dramatically different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence