QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Othello ACT/SCENE: 2.1 SPEAKER: Iago CONTEXT: IAGO
Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.
Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, but
for bragging and telling her fantastical lies. To love
him still for prating? Let not thy discreet heart think
it. Her eye must be fed, and what delight shall she have
to look on the devil? When the blood is made dull with
the act of sport, there should be a game to inflame it
and to give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in
favour, sympathy in years, manners and beauties. All
which the Moor is defective in. Now for want of these
required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will find
itself abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and
abhor the Moor. Very nature will instruct her in it and
compel her to some second choice. Now sir, this
granted—as it is a most pregnant and unforced
position—who stands so eminent in the degree of this
fortune as Cassio does? A knave very voluble, no further
conscionable than in putting on the mere form of civil
and humane seeming, for the better compassing of his
salt and most hidden loose affection. Why, none, why,
none! A slipper and subtle knave, a finder of occasions
that has an eye, can stamp and counterfeit advantages,
though true advantage never present itself. A devilish
knave. Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath
all those requisites in him that folly and green minds
look after. A pestilent complete knave, and the woman
hath found him already. DUTCH: Als het bloed afgekoeld is door genot, dan is er, om het weer te ontvlammen en aan verzadiging versche begeerte te geven, noodig: een beminnelijk gelaat, overeenstemming van jaren, van zeden, van schoonheid, waarin de Moor geheel en al te kort schiet. MORE: Slipper=Deceitful, slippery
Voluble=Plausible, glib
Conscionable=Conscientious
Humane=Polite, civil
Seeming=Appearance
Salt=Lecherous, lewd
Occasion=Opportunity
Advantages=Opportunities
Pregnant=Evident
Civil and humane=Polite and mannerly
Stamp=Coin, manufacture
Folly=Wantonness
Compleat:
A slippery (or dangerous) business=Een gevaarlyke bezigheid
A voluble tongue=Een vloeijende tong, een gladde tong, een tong die wel gehangen is
Conscionable=Naauw op zichzelven lettende; Gemoedelyk, billyk
Humane=Menschelyk, beleefd, heusch
Seeming=Schynende
Salt=(sault) Hitsig, ritsig, heet
Occasion=Gelegenheyd, voorval, oorzaak, nood
Advantage=Voordeel, voorrecht, winst, gewin, toegift
Pregnant=Krachtig, dringend, naadrukkelyk
Stamp=Stempelen, stampen
Folly=Ondeugd, buitenspoorigheid, onvolmaaktheid Topics: love, life, deceit, benefit/advantage