Crystal states: “…the 2 most important influences on the development of the language during the final decades of the renaissance are the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible” (62).
 Shakespeare’s impact on the language was mostly in the areas of the lexicon (62).  Crystal shows that idiomatic expressions were used by Shakespeare and some are still used today but maybe with a different meaning (63).
  Examples are:  “what the dickens”,  “it’s Greek to me”
    “In my mind’s eye”,  “a tower of strength”
I have heard and still hear some of these same idioms today.
 Also, Shakespeare used hyphenated compounds such as these used in the play King John (63).
  Examples are:  baby-eyes, giant-world
            Ill-turned, breake-vow
 Crystal also notes that Shakespeare was fond of making verbs from nouns (63).
  Examples:  “Season your admiration for a while…”
           “Grace me no grace, nor uncle me on uncle…”
          “Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels…”
 Crystal notes that the King James Bible was much more conservative than Shakespeare (64). Unlike Shakespeare the King James Bible estimates to only finding about 8,000 different words according to Crystal (65).
 The King James Bible had idioms just like Shakespeare.  Some also have been entered into the modern language (64).
  Examples:    “my brother keeper”
     “Eye for eye”
     “A man after his own heart”
     “How are the mighty fallen”
 Crystal points out that the King James Bible “…often opted for older forms of the language when modern alternatives were available (65).
 “Many irregular verbs are found in their older forms”:
 Digged (‘dug’), gat (‘got’), spake (‘spoke’).
 The King James Bible used the older word order form also:
  “follow thou me”
  “things eternal”
  “they knew him not:
 Unlike Shakespeare the King James Bible used the third person singular of the present tense of verbs (e)th .  However, Shakespeare used both –s- and the –(e) th.
 William Shakespeare and the King James Bible are both familiar works.  Today both works are widely know and are unavoidable in any discussion involving Language.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1995.