Don ~~ You took it on yourself to lecture me on the changes in meanings of words over the years, a topic of which I am perfectly aware; in apparent response to my post about how compressed was the Shakespearean expression of a certain concept, whose meaning I wasn't querying anyway. To compound this, you didn't even get the quote right, even after I had set you right about it, persistently rendering it as "a silken dalliance", when the actual words are simply "silken dalliance" without any preceding "a".

Do you really not think this was just an itty-bitty officious and uncomprehending of you, & liable to divert readers of my post from the point I was actually making?

Regards

~Michael~