Othello

pitch sticky black tar-like substance³⁵⁰ chase hunt³⁵¹ fills…cry makes up one of the pack³⁵² cudgelled beaten³⁵³ issue outcome³⁵⁴ wit sense³⁵⁹ dilatory slow/delaying³⁶¹ cashiered (got) dismissed³⁶² against exposed to³⁶³ Yet…ripe i.e. the dismissal of Cassio demonstrates that our plan is blossoming and will ensure that the eventual outcome (fruit) of our schemes is successful³⁶⁴ troth truth³⁷⁰ move entreat, solicit³⁷² the while meanwhile³⁷³ jump precisely³⁷⁵ device schemingMusicians music was traditionally played outside a bridal bedroom at dawn¹ content your pains pay for your efforts⁴ Naples southwestern Italian city i’th’nose with a nasal twang like that of the Neapolitan accent/like one whose nasal tissue has been damaged by syphilis, of which there was a high incidence in Naples⁵ How what⁸ tail penis (though the Musician hears “tale,” i.e. story)¹⁰ wind instrument sense has now shifted to “flatulent anus”¹² love’s the love you bear him/Othello’s lovemaking with Desdemona¹³ noise plays on nose¹⁹ up away²³ keep…quillets hold back your quibbles²⁴ gentlewoman female attendant²⁵ stirring up and about (but in his response the Clown shifts the sense to “sexually arousing”) ²⁷ seem arrange, contrive²⁹ In happy time (you have come at) an opportune moment³⁶ presently immediately³⁷ mean method⁴¹ A Florentine i.e. even a Florentine (one of Cassio’s own countrymen)⁴³ displeasure being out of favor⁴⁶ fame reputation⁴⁷ affinity family/connections wholesome sound, beneficial⁴⁹ suitor petitioner⁵³ advantage of a favorable opportunity for⁵⁷ bosom heart, inmost thoughts² do my duties convey my respects³ works fortifications⁴ Repair return/make your way³ I warrant I’m sure¹³ strangeness aloofness, unfriendliness¹⁴ politic discreet/expedient¹⁷ nice and waterish insubstantial and thin (or possibly “luxurious and succulent”)¹⁸ breed…circumstances renew itself out of various events/generate so few opportunities (for my reinstatement)¹⁹ supplied filled²¹ doubt fear²² warrant assurance, guarantee²⁵ watch him tame tame him by preventing him from sleeping (a method for training hawks) ²⁶ board a shrift table (shall seem) a confessional²⁹ solicitor pleader/representative/ lawyer (legal language continues with cause)³⁰ away up³⁶ do your discretion obey your own judgment⁴⁶ suitor petitioner (Desdemona unconsciously puns on the sense of “lover”)⁵⁰ grace virtue/favor with you⁵¹ present reconciliation take restore him to your favor immediately/accept the reconciliation he now seeks⁵³ in cunning deliberately⁵⁷ sooth truly⁶⁵ dinner lunch⁷² trespass fault, offense common reason everyday judgment⁷⁴ best best men not almost hardly even⁷⁵ check reprimand⁷⁸ mamm’ring stammering hesitantly⁸² in i.e. into favor⁸⁵ boon favor graciously granted⁸⁸ peculiar particular, personal⁹⁰ touch test⁹¹ poise heaviness, importance/balance, equipoise (making choice hard) difficult weight hard to assess or weigh⁹⁴ Whereon as a result of which⁹⁷ straight straightaway, very soon⁹⁸ fancies inclinations, whims¹⁰⁰ Perdition destruction/ damnation catch seize¹¹⁴ aught anything¹²⁶ of…Of in my confidence during¹²⁸ purse furrow, knit¹³⁰ conceit imagining/idea¹³⁴ for because¹³⁶ stops hesitations/abrupt pauses¹³⁷ false treacherous¹³⁸ custom habit¹³⁹ close dilations secret delays/hidden accusations¹⁴⁰ rule control, restrain¹⁴⁵ seem none not be men/not seem to be anything at all, not convince in the slightest¹⁵⁴ that…free the thing that even slaves are not bound to do (i.e. speak their thoughts) ¹⁵⁸ uncleanly morally impure¹⁵⁹ leets courts held by some manorial lords law-days days on which courts of law meet sessions sittings of the law court¹⁶⁰