Weaving plots for possession
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e urdia planos para assegurar-se a posse da gentil captiva.
and wove plots to secure for himself possession of the graceful captive.
The verb is the sinister heart of the line: 'urdia,' he wove, as one weaves cloth on a loom — but here it is 'planos,' plots. The image is doubly apt in a chapter set among spinners: while the enslaved women weave thread, the master weaves schemes. And the object is stated without euphemism — 'a posse da gentil captiva,' possession of the graceful captive, a woman reduced to a thing to be secured.
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