From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Runner-up to Will Shakes in the "England's Got Playwrights" finals.   
      
   Jonson on language (briefly excerpted):   
      
   A wise tongue should not be licentious and wandering...   
      
   How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak sparingly!   
      
   Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.   
      
   [That's familiar -- who is he quoting there? Or is it him?]   
      
   These are from a collection (a "commonplace book", not published in his   
   lifetime) called:   
      
   "Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed   
   out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of   
   the times"   
      
   Besides that, and some great plays, he wrote an English Grammar!   
   It's quite good -- available online in various forms.   
      
   "Q is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet,if   
   we would but use the serviceable k as he should be, and   
   restore him to the reputation he had with our forefathers.   
   For the English Saxons knew not this halting q,with her   
   waiting-woman u after her ... [t]ill custom, under the excuse of   
   expressing enfranchised words with us, entreated her into our language."   
      
   “R is the dog’s letter and hurreth in the sound”   
      
   (OED hurr, v. (obsolete) To make or utter a dull sound of vibration or   
   trilling; to buzz as an insect; to snarl as a dog; to pronounce a   
   trilled r.)   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)