to link or to quote; another question begging to be asked...

<<the phrase actually comes from another sense of the word beg; that is to take for granted without warrant -- here are a couple of citations:

This was to assert or beg the thing in Question.
Many say it is begging the point in dispute.>>

by the way, those [<< >>] were guillemets just then, quotation marks in some of the Romance languages.