You get a fresh understanding of some of
the puns that are missed in modern
English. For instance in Troilus and Cressida there's this character Ajax and
at one point somebody insults him by
calling his name and saying "you're Ajax".
Well, why is that an insult? Well, when you know
that there were two pronunciations of
Ajax at the time: "ay-jax" and also "ah-jex",
and when you know that "ah-jex" was a
word for a toilet, a lavatory, then
immediately you get a rudeness coming
into the conversation which is part of
the insult that is given to Ajax you see.
So when you get these things together:
you get the rhymes, you get the puns, you
get this general audit refreshness. I
think these are the main benefits of OP.
