Othello

conjuration invocation of spirits/spells¹⁰³ withal with¹⁰⁶ motion natural inner impulses/physical movement¹⁰⁸ years age (Othello is older than Desdemona)credit reputation¹¹³ practices tricks/treachery/schemes¹¹⁴ vouch assert, affirm¹¹⁵ mixtures potions, medicines (perhaps with connotations of “unlawful sexual intercourse”) blood passions/sexual appetite¹¹⁶ dram small draught, dose¹¹⁷ wrought worked¹¹⁹ test evidence/trial¹²⁰ habits clothes (i.e. appearances)¹²¹ modern seeming commonplace appearance prefer put forward¹²³ indirect devious, deceitful forced courses forcible means¹²⁵ question conversation¹²⁶ affordeth grants, yields naturally¹³¹ office official position¹³⁷ blood nature/ passions/anger¹³⁸ justly exactly/truthfully present legal term meaning “to lay before a court”¹⁴³ Still continually¹⁴⁵ passed experienced/got through¹⁴⁸ disastrous unlucky/calamitous¹⁴⁹ moving changeable/emotionally stirring accidents events flood and field water and land/sea and battlefield¹⁵⁰ scapes escapes i’th’imminent deadly breach in the gap in a fortification (made by a battery), which presents an imminent danger of death¹⁵¹ insolent proud, overbearing¹⁵³ portance bearing/conduct¹⁵⁴ antres caves deserts idle empty wildernesses¹⁵⁶ hint occasion/opportunity process story, account¹⁵⁸ Anthropophagi man-eaters 159 these…hear in order to hear these things¹⁶⁰ seriously earnestly incline be disposed mentally/lean in physically¹⁶⁵ pliant suitable, accommodating¹⁶⁷ pilgrimage i.e. his life’s journey and its adventures dilate relate/expand upon¹⁶⁸ parcels small parts¹⁶⁹ intentively intently, with close attention¹⁷⁰ beguile her of coax from her (perhaps a deliberate shift from the sense of “cheat” employed by the duke in line 74)¹⁷¹ stroke blow¹⁷³ kisses could mean “gentle touches”¹⁷⁴ passing surpassingly, exceedingly¹⁷⁷ made her created her to be/made for her¹⁸⁰ hint opportunity/indication¹⁸⁴ witness testify to¹⁸⁷ Take…best i.e. make the best of a bad situation¹⁹² bad mistaken/wrongful¹⁹⁸ education upbringing¹⁹⁹ learn teach²⁰¹ hitherto thus far²⁰³ preferring promoting/esteeming²⁰⁴ challenge claim, assert as a right²⁰⁷ Please it if it please²⁰⁸ get beget, conceive²¹¹ but were it not that²¹² For your sake because of you²¹⁴ escape transgression/ elopement²¹⁵ clogs blocks of wood attached to the neck or leg to prevent escape²¹⁶ like yourself on your behalf/as you would speak if you were calm lay apply sentence opinion/saying, maxim²¹⁷ grise flight of stairs/single step²¹⁸ remedies are past it is too late for remedies griefs hardships, suffering/distress²¹⁹ late recently²²⁰ mischief misfortune/wicked action²²¹ next nearest²²² takes takes away/seizes hold/strikes²²³ Patience…makes enduring it patiently enables one to make light of the injury inflicted by fortune²²⁵ spends engages in/exhausts/expends (perhaps with the suggestion of tears) bootless pointless/incurable²²⁶ beguile cheat/deprive²²⁸ He…hears he who derives only the easy comfort of such a saying certainly bears out your maxim (bears the sentence plays on the sense of “undergoes judicial sentence”) ²²⁹ free easy/unrestrained/costless²³¹ to…borrow must try to abate his grief with the scant resources of patience poor unfortunate/feeble/impecunious²³² These…equivocal i.e. such maxims are just as sweet as they are bitter, so they are equally valid in whichever fashion they are applied²³⁵ bruised crushed, battered pierced affected, moved (i.e. soothed) through the ears i.e. by words²³⁸ fortitude strength²³⁹ allowed sufficiency acknowledged ability, demonstrable competence²⁴⁰ opinion public opinion effects events/outcomes²⁴¹ throws…you votes for you as the more secure choice²⁴² slubber soil, smear²⁴³ stubborn difficult/unyielding boisterous rough, violent²⁴⁵ flinty hard, stony couch bed (in addition to the nature of war in general, Othello also refers to having to sleep on the ground in one’s armor) ²⁴⁶ thrice-driven i.e. extremely soft, having had the lightest feathers separated from the rest three times over down fine feathers of young birds agnize acknowledge²⁴⁷