Cassio's attitude towards respectable women

Question 1

he hath achieved a maid/That paragon description and wild fame;/One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens

Answer 1

Cassio 2.1 - Desdemona’s beauty is so great that it cannot be described (in Shakespeare’s mockery of blazon), this flattery reflecting Cassio’s noble birth and upbringing

Question 2

One that … in th’ essential venture of creation/Does tire the inginer

Answer 2

Cassio 2.1 - suggests that Desdemona’s perfection was so great that creating her tired God

Question 3

The divine Desdemona

Answer 3

Cassio 2.1 - apotheosises her with this complimentary and flattering language

Question 4

our great captain’s captain

Answer 4

Cassio 2.1 - suggests that Desdemona has power over Othello, and the military language used to describe the power she seems to have over him suggests that she has agency and power in their relationship and love