Othello

joint-ring ring consisting of two joined halves⁷⁹ lawn fine linen⁸⁰ exhibition gift⁸² venture risk (going to)⁸⁹ to th’vantage in addition, besides⁹⁰ store populate played gambled/had sex⁹² fall succumb sexually duties marital and sexual duties⁹³ our…laps the semen that is due to us into other women’s vaginas⁹⁴ peevish senseless/perverse/willful⁹⁶ scant reduce/withhold our former having what we had before/our former financial means despite spite, malice⁹⁷ have galls are capable of feeling bitterness and resentment grace charm/virtue/mercy⁹⁸ revenge desire for revenge¹⁰² change exchange sport entertainment/sex¹⁰³ affection desire, lust¹⁰⁷ use treat/employ sexually¹⁰⁹ uses habits (of thought)¹¹⁰ Not…mend not to learn bad habits from the bad behavior of others, but to learn from such examples to improve myself¹ bulk framework projecting from the front of a shop, a stall² bare unsheathed put it home drive it firmly to the target⁴ mars destroys⁶ miscarry go wrong, fail¹¹ quat pimple to the sense raw, to the tenderest part¹² angry inflamed/enraged¹⁴ Live Rodorigo should Rodorigo live¹⁶ bobbed cheated¹⁷ gifts i.e. supposed gifts²¹ unfold reveal²⁵ coat (thick) overcoat/metal-plated garment worn under outer clothing²⁶ proof trial³³ brave excellent/noble³⁵ Minion whore (addressing Desdemona)³⁶ unblest unholy, damned hies hastens³⁷ of out of, from³⁹ passage passersby⁴⁰ direful dreadful, dismal, horrible⁴⁴ heavy overcast, gloomy⁴⁶ come in to approach⁴⁹ in his shirt in his nightshirt/without a jacket⁵⁸ spoiled badly damaged, injured undone ruined⁷² prove discover by testing, find praise appraise⁸⁵ may you suspect do you have any suspicions about⁸⁹ garter band worn to hold up the stocking or as a belt or sash (Iago requires it for use as a tourniquet)⁹² trash worthless stuff, whore (i.e. Bianca)¹⁰² accidents events/mishaps¹⁰⁸ said done¹¹¹ For as for¹¹² Save…labour don’t bother to try and help Cassio, leave him alone¹¹⁷ the…eye her terrified look gastness terror, dread¹¹⁸ stare i.e. gaze fixedly in horror (suggestive of guilt and an imminent confession) ¹³³ honest chaste¹³⁶ Cassio dressed i.e. Cassio’s wound bandaged¹⁴¹ fordoes me quite ruins me completely¹ cause offense/reason for action⁵ alabaster used for the construction of funeral monuments⁷ Put…light quench the torch or candle and then extinguish Desdemona’s life⁸ flaming minister i.e. the torch or candle minister servant¹¹ cunning’st pattern most skillfully made model (cunning reverberates with its sense of “deception”)¹² Promethean in Greek mythology the Titan Prometheus created humankind, for whom he also stole fire from heaven¹³ relume relight¹⁴ vital living¹⁷ Justice traditionally depicted as a blindfolded woman carrying scales and a sword²⁰ fatal deadly, destructive/ doomed²² strikes delivers a blow/withers (used of frost)/destroys (used of God or of malign planetary influence)²⁷ Ay yes; Folio’s “I” could mean both “I” and “ay” (yes) and sound identical³⁰ Solicit beg forgiveness³² I…to it is all I can do not to³⁴ forfend forbid³⁹ say say so, say that⁴⁵ They…you apparently alludes to the sin of loving a human more than God⁶¹ Presently imminently⁶³ article item forming part of an accusation⁶⁴ conception belief/plan⁶⁵ do groan withal suffer with/am in labor with (playing on sense of pregnancy: conception) ⁶⁹ Offend sin against, commit a crime against⁷⁰ warranty authorization⁷³ stone harden, turn to stone⁸² used had sex with (Desdemona responds to a more general sense of “employed”) ⁸⁷ ta’en order made arrangements⁹⁰ stomach appetite⁹⁶ strive struggle⁹⁸ Being done i.e. as I am resolved to do the deed/while it is being done is no pause must be no hesitation¹⁰⁸ By and by in a moment (addressed to Emilia)¹⁰⁹ like likely¹¹⁰ noise i.e. following the attack on Cassio high loud¹¹⁸ yawn at alteration gape open at this great change in nature¹²² Soft wait a moment curtains bed curtains¹²⁷ error roaming, wandering off course/mistake¹²⁸