letter and affection personal influence and favoritismģ8 old gradation step-by-step seniority, the traditional wayĤ3 content you don't you worry about that.ĥ2 trimmed. (A sailing metaphor.)ģ2 Debitor and Creditor (A name for a system of bookkeeping, here used as a contemptuous nickname for Cassio.) countercaster i.e., bookkeeper, one who tallies with counters, or 'metal disks.' (Said contemptuously.)ģ3 in good time opportunely, i.e., forsoothģ4 God bless the mark (Perhaps originally a formula to ward off evil here an expression of impatience.) ancient standard-bearer, ensign.ģ7 Preferment promotion. But he, sir, had th'election ģ1 Beleed and calmed left to leeward without wind, becalmed. Wherein the Togaed consuls can propose 26Īs masterly as he. More than a spinster-unless the bookish theoric, 25 For, 'Certes,' says he, 17Ī fellow almost damned in a fair wife, 22 Horribly stuffed with epithets of war, 15 I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.īut he, as loving his own pride and purposes,Įvades them with a bombast circumstance 14

Off-capped to him and by the faith of man, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate. Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly 1Īs if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this. Theoric theoryĢ6 Togaed consuls toga-wearing counselors or senators. See also 4.1.131.)Ģ4 division of a battle disposition of a military unitĢ5 a spinster i.e., a housewife, one whose regular occupation is spinning. wife (Cassio does not seem to be married, but his counterpart in Shakespeare's source does have a woman in his house. Certes CertainlyĢ0 arithmetician i.e., a man whose military knowledge is merely theoretical, based on books of tacticsĢ2 A.

(Bombast is cotton padding.)ġ7 Nonsuits rejects the petition of. Servants, Attendants, Officers, Senators,ġ never tell me (An expression of incredulity, like 'tell me another one.')ġ4 Bombast circumstance wordy evasion. Lodovico and Gratiano, twoĭesdemona, wife toīianca, a courtesan Brabantio, father to DesdemonaĬassio, an honorable lieutenant

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