"I will be hanged if some eternal villian,/ Some busy and insinuating rogue,/ some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,/ have not devised this slander. I will be hanged else" (Emilia, 4.2.129-132)
This part made me laugh. Maybe it's just me, though, but I can totally see this happening in a cartoon or Comedy movie. Emilia basically doesn't know what Iago is doing to Othello, Desdemona, Roderigo, and Cassio. she just knows that someone caused Othello to act this way. So, in her anger, she curses him, calls him names, wishes he be punished in hell, everything bad ten times over. Meanwhile, the person to blame is in fact two feet away from her, and her husband. It's kinda funny, Dramatic Irony, which is what this quote is an example of. The whole scetion in which she does this is hilarious, because I can picture Iago standing there, scowling, brows creased in anger at his wife, with his one line answers to her paragraph-long rebukes. Whoever said Shakespeare's not funny must be shot...survivors shot again.
Durst-(Verb) Archaic form of Dare (4.2.12)
Cozen(word used in text, cozening)- (Verb[tr.]) 1. To mislead by means of petty trick or fraud; deceive 2. To persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling 3. To obtain by deceit or persuasion (Verb[intr.]) To act deceitfully
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