Knowledge, information, data

I have been talking to a colleague about philosophy of science. The colleague's opinions are generally materialistic (one may know only what is material), whereas I try to prove (by some examples) that knowledge may be obtained without (or prior to) information, and in the areas which cannot be quantified, yet objectively existing. 

A week ago, after many years of pondering, I attempted to resolve a question that had been stuck on my mind since I first read Sonnet 66 by Shakespeare:

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,

As to behold desert a beggar born,

And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,

And purest faith unhappily forsworn, 

etc.

I saw similar examples in the works of Marlowe as well, and I could not understand how these two most melodic poets would allow unrhymed 'cry' and 'jollity' to form their stanzas. Unless... unless that time those words sounded somehow else? 

Could it be that 400 years ago English pronunciation was different? What if 'jollity' did rhyme with 'cry', with 'ai' at the end?  

I asked this question a couple of contemporary English poets, and they replied that this was an example of a 'loose rhyme', which is 'allowed in English poetry'. 

Still, I could not believe that was the case of the great bards. I emailed an eminent specialist in English, and, to my surprise, he kindly replied that "the -y ending did have a diphthongal pronunciation in the 16th century, so cry and jollity would have rhymed".

Look again at that stanza and read it with 'jollitai'. Isn't it perfect?

I, a non-native English speaker, somehow realised what Shakespeare meant melodically in his sonnets, despite incorrect advice and without any evidence to support my linguistic hypothesis. I knew this without information. Truth was verified by harmony. 

Astrologically, that is my Venus in 9th natal house. 9th house denotes learning and faith, and people have different planets in that house (or none). Sometimes it is Moon, sometimes Mars, Mercury or Jupiter - and that defines the type of learning of a person. I am often envious of people with Mercury in 9th: they are prolific intellectuals. But I would not trade my Venus in 9th for anything else, since it opens up with cases like the Shakespearean 'jollity'. Such discoveries are very jolly indeed!

Knowledge is broader than information; data is broader than information; the difference is in the identified structure that produces knowledge. To perceive the universe in a meaningful way, we need to obtain knowledge by all possible means. 

Update of 17 September 2020: found this amazing Youtube video that confirms the cry-jollity rhyme.