... in the first place, it ought to be considered, that every Tongue has its own peculiar Form, as well as its proper Words; not communicable to, nor to be regulated by the Analogy of another Language: Wherefore he is the best Grammarian, who is the perfectest Master of the Analogy of the Language which he is about; and gives the truest Rules, by which another Man may learn it. Next, to apply this to our own Tongue, it may be certainly affirmed, that the Grammar of English is so far our own, that Skill in the Learned Languages is not necessary to comprehend it. Ben Johnson was the first Man, that I know of, that did any Thing considerable in it; but Lilly's Grammar was his Pattern: and for want of Reflecting upon the Grounds of a Language which he understood as well as any Man of his Age, he drew it by Violence to a dead Language that was of a quite different Make; and so left his Work imperfect. (58)

[In the second edition (1697), Wotton substitutes the following after 'that did any Thing considerable in it': ]

... but he seems to have been too much possessed with the Analogy of Latin and Greek, to write a perfect Grammar of a Language whose Construction is so vastly different; tho' he falls into a contrary Fault, when he treats of the English Syntax, where he generally appeals to Chaucer and Gower, who lived before our Tongue had met with any of that Polishing, which, within these last CC Years, has made it appear almost entirely New. (60)