Happy Shakespeare Sunday🌞 “But ’tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back.” ⚔️🌹 Found in the play Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1 #catsogbluesky #Dogsofbluesky

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"Salt" is one of those words with many shades of meaning. There is an obsolete sense (OED noun2) in which salt means the desire of an animal in the state of estrus. Shax uses this sense in Othello: "Be they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride" (that is, in estrus).

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It's a short step then to the adjectival meaning "lascivious," which is also used in Othello. Iago (slanderously) says that Cassio puts on the "mere form of civil and humane seeming for the better compass of his salt and most hidden loose affection." Other examples from Shax possibly ambiguous;

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The Duke says that Angelo's "salt imagination" offended Isabella's honor. So fascinating. Salt, that which adds or increases flavor, right? The OED says that in Shakespeare, "salt gives liveliness, freshness, or individual quality to a person's character, life, etc."

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GOP have you ever considered how smart Shakespeare was?

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