Ha! Exactly my thought! My uneducated guess is that because we are (or at least I am) lacking a lot of vocabulary compared to native speakers, we have to do eve

Ha! Exactly my thought! My uneducated guess is that because we are (or at least I am) lacking a lot of vocabulary compared to native speakers, we have to do every time we read something written in a rather lyrical way or that has unusually complex words. Regarding the 1600's English, for me this is definitely easier to understand than Shakespeare.