A highly merited compliment.) I wished to refer to two eminent authorities.

Now be so good as to listen.

The great moralist says: "To trifle with the vocabulary which is the vehicle of social intercourse is to tamper with the currency of human intelligence.

He who would violate the sanctities of his mother tongue would invade the recesses of the paternal till without remorse, and repeat the banquet of Saturn without an indigestion." And, once more, listen to the historian.

"The Puritans hated puns.
The Bishops were notoriously addicted to them.