Act I
Prologue
• Adjourn: to defer or postpone
• Amour: a love affair.
• Approbation: official approval or sanction.
• Arraign:to accuse or charge in general- dictionary.com
• Audire est operae…vultis: wider context translation (Wikipedia)
"It is worthwhile, for those of you who wish adulterers no success, to hear how much misfortune they suffer, and how often their pleasure is marred by pain and, though rarely achieved, even then fraught with danger."
Horace or Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a roman writer of two books of satire, among other works.
• Bedded- Put to bed, having gone to bed; lying in bed.
• Bubbles- the condition of being at risk of exclusion or replacement
• Bum baily: a sheriff’s deputy
• Buttered- In context, adding flavor to person’s fashion or to a person’s self.
• Cabal: 1. a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority. 2. the plots and schemes of such a group; intrigue. 3. a clique, as in artistic, literary, or theatrical circles.
• Cabalist- one skilled in esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
• Cabal-nights: nights where such meetings take place
• Canonical hour: any of certain periods of the day set apart for prayer and devotion
• Censorious: severely critical; faultfinding; carping.
• Continence: self-restraint or abstinence, esp. in regard to sexual activity; temperance; moderation.
• Conventicle: a secret or unauthorized meeting, esp. for religious worship, as those held by Protestant dissenters in England in the 16th and 17th centuries
• Coroner’s inquest: An investigation made by a coroner into the cause of death.
• Countenance- facial appearance regarded as an indication of mood or feeling
• Country-dance- A dance practised by country-people, usually in the open air. b. esp. a generic name for all English dances of rural or native origin (already in 17th c. contrasted with French dances); specifically, applied to dances in which an indefinite number of couples stand up face to face in two long lines, as in the well-known Sir Roger de Coverley.
• Coxcomb- . A fool, simpleton (obs.); now, a foolish, conceited, showy person, vain of his accomplishments, appearance, or dress; a fop; ‘a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments’
• Coxcomb: a conceited, foolish dandy; pretentious fop.
• Dame Partlet- the hen that was Chanticleer’s wife in the “Nun’s Tale” of The Canterbury Tales.
• Debauch: to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
• Demme- damn
• Dispatch: to transact or dispose of (a matter) promptly or speedily.
• Dissembled- to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of
• Dissembled: to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of
• Dried fig- A fig without juice, in context, something without merit.
• Dropsy: also known as edema, an excess of fluid beneath the skin, causing swelling.
• Exceptious- Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious
• Favour: favor
• Flattery: excessive, insincere praise.
• Fobbed- deceive, cheat
• Fortune- Chance, hap, or luck, regarded as a cause of events and changes in men's affairs. Also, a large sum of money depending on the context.
• Gad- archaic form of God.
• Gallant: brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous, exceptionally polite and attentive to women.
• Gamesters- One who habitually plays at games of chance for money or other stake; a gambler.
• Hackney-coach- A four-wheeled coach, drawn by two horses, and seated for six persons, kept for hire.
• Harkee- To give ear or listen to; to hearken to, hear with active attention
• Hearken- to give respectful attention, Listen
• Hood- a. A covering for the head and neck (sometimes extending to the shoulders) of soft or flexible material, either forming part of a larger garment (as the hood of a cowl or cloak) or separate; in the former case, it can usually be thrown back so as to hang from the shoulders down the back; in the latter sense it was applied in 14-16th c. to a soft covering for the head worn by men under the hat.
• Horace or Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a roman writer of two books of satire, among other works.
• Humours: 1. peculiar features; oddities; quirks, 2. mental disposition or temperament.3. (in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.
• Ibid is not another author but is short for the latin word meaning, “same place”
• Impudent- Wanting in shame or modesty; shameless, unblushing, immodest; indelicate.
• Imputation: an attribution, as of fault or crime; accusation.
• Invective: vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
• Jade: a disreputable or ill-tempered woman.
• Knave: an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person
• Knight-errant: a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
• Knocked up- awoken, specifically to have your door knocked on to wake you up.
• Lampoon: a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution
• Le Drole- comical, funny
• Liveries: a uniform worn by servants.
• Maintain: to keep or hold against attack, to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain.
• Mall- a walk bordered by trees in St James's Park, London, originally the alley in which the game of ‘mall’ was played
• Metuat doti deprensa: word by word translation: dread the dowry arrest. Or, in its wider context (according to Wikipedia)
"I have no fear in her company that a husband may rush back from the country, the door burst open, the dog bark, the house shake with the din, the woman, deathly pale, leap from her bed, her complicit maid shriek, she fearing for her limbs, her guilty mistress for her dowry and I for myself."
• Midwife- A woman (or, rarely, a man) who assists women in childbirth
• Mirth- Delights, joys
• Monster in the Tempest- Syorax was the name of a monster included in a popular Restoration era remake of the tempest by Dryden-Davenant.
• Natural- Natural disposition, inclination, or character
• Nature- Senses relating to innate character. The whole natural world
• Paint- Colour, colouring; adornment; outward appearance or show
• Porter- A gatekeeper, esp. at the entrance of a fortified town or castle
• Pox- - In various imprecations or exclamations of irritation and impatience
• Pox- In various imprecations or exclamations of irritation and impatience
• Prithee- contraction of Pray thee
• Pshaw- an expression of impatience or disgust
• Quintessence: the pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
• Raillery- : good-natured ridicule, banter
• Raillery- good-natured ridicule, banter
• Reckoning- The action or an act of giving or being required to give an account of something, esp. one's conduct or actions; an account or statement so given. Also: an occasion of giving or being required to give such a statement; a calling to account
• Repartee: 1. a quick, witty reply. 2. conversation full of such replies. 3. skill in making such replies.
• Resignation: an accepting, unresisting attitude
• Ribaldry: obscenity
• Riveted: fastened or fixed firmly.
• S’bud
• Shake his ears-to wake up, rouse.
• Sifted her-To examine closely into, to scrutinize narrowly, so as to find out the truth
• Snug’s the word- Used as an interjection asking for or commanding secrecy
• Soft- Producing agreeable or pleasant sensations; characterized by ease and quiet enjoyment; of a calm or placid nature
• Spleen: spitefulness or ill humour; peevishness: to vent one's spleen
• Squire1. (in England) a country gentleman, esp. the chief landed proprietor in a district. 2. (in the Middle Ages) a young man of noble birth who as an aspirant to knighthood served a knight. 3. a personal attendant, as of a person of rank.
• Stoic: of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity.
• Taciturnity: the state or quality of being reserved or reticent in conversation.
• Tender- An offer of anything for acceptance.
• Tete-e-tete- (pronounced tet ah tet) also spelled tete a tete, french for a one on one conversation
• Trice- a brief space of time
• Trice: moment; instant
• Troth: truth or verity
• Trundle: to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll, Archaic . to cause to rotate; twirl; spin.
• Unseasonable- occurring at other than the proper time
• Vapours: 1. mental depression or hypochondria, 2. injurious exhalations formerly supposed to be produced within the body, esp. in the stomach.
• Whiting’s eye: the whiting is a slender food fish of the genus Menticirrhus, of the croaker family, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.
• Whoremaster- A procurer or pimp
• Withal: in spite of all; nevertheless.
• Worse than a quaker hates a parrot-
• Yon: Yonder
Act II
• a archaic : exhalations of bodily organs (as the stomach) held to affect the physical or mental condition b : a depressed or hysterical nervous condition
• Asperse- to attack with evil reports or false or injurious charges
• Betimes- : archaic : in a short time : speedily
• Cuckold- a man whose wife is unfaithful
• Dissemble- Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
• Heigho- used typically to express boredom, weariness, or sadness or sometimes as a cry of encouragement
• Incensed- archaic : to cause (a passion or emotion) to become aroused
• Insipid- Lacking vigor or interest: "insipid, shallow books"
• Interposing- : to put forth by way of interference or intervention
• Intimate- : to make known especially publicly or formally: announce
• Inveterately- firmly established over time
• Inviolate- not violated or profaned; especially: pure
• Levee- reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed
• Libertine- debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
• Moiety- : one of two equal parts : half b : one of two approximately equal parts
• Perukes- A wig; specifically : one of a type popular from the 17th to the early 19th century
• Physic- to treat with or administer medicine to; especially : purge
• Preferment- advancement or promotion in dignity, office, or station b : a position or office of honor or profit
• Prithee- archaic —used to express a wish or request
• Prodigality- Extreme abundance
• Sententious- a : given to or abounding in aphoristic expression b : given to or abounding in excessive moralizing
• Similitudes- an imaginative comparison
• Solacing- : console, to make cheerful
• Transcendently- (adverb form of transcendent). Exceeding usual limits : surpassing b : extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience c in Kantian philosophy : being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
• Vapours-: 1. mental depression or hypochondria, 2. injurious exhalations formerly supposed to be produced within the body, esp. in the stomach.
Act III
• Affected: assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned
• Angle into Blackfriars…old mitten
• Ash- greyish-pink colour.
• Bartlemew and his Fair: The Bartholomew fair was a popular charter fair in London that was shortened from two weeks to four days in the 18th century. (Wikipedia)
• Bawd: a woman who maintains a brothel; madam, a prostitute.
• Becravated: wearing a cloth, often made of or trimmed with lace, worn about the neck by men esp. in the 17th century
• Behindhand: late; tardy, in debt or arrears.
• Beperiwigged: wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries
• Blackfriars: an order of Dominican friars
• Bobbin: a reel, cylinder, or spool upon which yarn or thread is wound, as used in spinning, machine sewing, lacemaking, etc.
• Changeling: (in folklore) an ugly, stupid, or strange child left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child.
• Chymist: an old way to spell chemist
• Closet- A room for privacy or retirement; a private room; an inner chamber
• Credulity: willingness to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.
• Cuckold: the husband of an unfaithful wife.
• Curate: Chiefly British . a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
• Deshabille: the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
• Discarded Toast- forgotten toast
• Doily: any small, ornamental mat, as of embroidery or lace.
• Drap de berry- Heavy woolen cloth originally from Berry in France
• Drawer- One who draws liquor for customers; a tapster at a tavern
• Dyingness- in the likeness of dying.
• Fie: an interjection used to express mild disgust, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.
• Flap-dragon: an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
• Fleers: to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly.
• Fop: a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners.
• Fretted- Worried, vexed, chafed, distressed.
• Frippery: empty display; ostentation.
• Gallant: a brave, noble-minded, or chivalrous man, a man exceptionally attentive to women, a stylish and dashing man, a suitor or lover, a paramour.
• I’ll turn my wife to grass- the notion of being dismissed from one's position
• Importunate: urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
• Incontinently- Straightway, at once, immediately
• Laship- The state or condition of being a lady; the rank, status, or authority of a lady.
• Ludgate- an ancient debtors' prison in London
• Masked- disguised
• Melancholic: disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
• Mem- ma’am
• Miniature- A likeness or representation on a small scale
• Modish: in the current fashion; stylish.
• Month’s Mind- an inclination, fancy, liking.
• Mopus- A simpleton; a dull, stupid, or ineffectual person
• Mrs. Engine- Skill in contriving, ingenuity; also, in bad sense, artfulness, cunning, trickery
• Nettled- Irritated, angry
• Ods- A euphemistic substitute for God in asseverative or exclamatory formulae
• Olio: a mixture of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge.
• Outstripped- To run or move faster than; to move ahead of; to leave behind
• Passé-partout: something that passes everywhere or provides a universal means of passage.
• Prithee: pray thee
• Projection- one resulting in change from one thing to another
• Ratafia: a sweet liqueur made from wine or grape juice combined with brandy or other spirits and often flavored with almonds, fruit, or fruit kernels.
• Refined like…skipper from a whale-fishing:
• Rhenish-wine: A wine produced in the area of the Rhine river, in France.
• Robin from Lockets
• Satyr: Classical Mythology . one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness. Also: a lascivious man; lecher.
• Scurvy: contemptible; despicable; mean. Also: a disease.
• Shrewsbury cake: a small, flat, English cookie.
• Sibyl: any of certain women of antiquity reputed to possess powers of prophecy or divination.
• Slabber: slobber
• Smoke him- make him ridiculous
• Starling: A kind of pigeon
• Superannuated: too old for use, work, service, or a position.
• Tapster- 1.A man who draws the beer, etc. for the customers in a public house; the keeper of a tavern. 2. A woman who tapped or drew ale or other liquor for sale in an inn; a hostess.
• Tatterdemalion: a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
• Toilet- A towel or cloth thrown over the shoulders during hair-dressing; also, a shawl.
• Veracity: habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness
• Vernish- varnish
• Weathercock: a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it, a person who readily adopts the latest fads, opinions, etc
• Welsh Maidenhead- one that fail to keep one’s promised virginity
• Wrekin: the long way round. Possibly also an alternate spelling for reckon.
Act IV
• Aniseed- the seed of anise often used as a flavoring in liqueurs and in cooking
• Borachio- An associate of Don John. Borachio is the lover of Margaret, Hero’s serving woman. He conspires with Don John to trick Claudio and Don Pedro into thinking that Hero is unfaithful to Claudio. His name means “drunkard” in Italian. So, in context of the play, it probably means “drunkard”.
• Bumper- a brimming cup or glass
• Camlet- A European fabric of silk or wool.
• Fulsomely- abundantly, excessively
• Imprimis- in the first place —used to introduce a list of items or considerations
• In Vino Veritas- In wine there is truth
• Lade demonian-
• Lubber- a big clumsy fellow, clumsy.
• Perfidious- : disloyal, false, fickle, inconstant, faithless, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue
• Phoebus- Shining one, Apollo.
• Shake-bag- A rogue, scoundrel, often associated with cock-fighting.
• Sir John Suckling- A poet, playwright, and soldier in Britain. 1609-1642
• Stripling- Youth, youthful.
• Superannuated- to make, declare, or prove obsolete or out-of-date, dated.
• Tallow-Chandler- One whose trade is to make or sell tallow candles
• Tractable- easily handled, managed, or wrought : malleable
• Unsized- not made to size, untailored.
• Vizards- : a mask for disguise or protection
• Woodlouse- a terrestrial isopod crustacean (suborder Oniscoidea) with a flattened elliptical body often capable of being rolled into a ball
Act V
• Aspersions: a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander
• Balladmonger: a seller of ballads, an inferior poet
• Bawdy: indecent; lewd; obscene
• Bear-garden: a place for keeping or exhibiting bears, esp. (formerly) for bearbaiting. a place or scene of tumult.
• Beaux- finery
• Belles Assemblees: beautiful assembly
• Bridewell: a prison.
• Catechized: to instruct orally by means of questions and answers, esp. in Christian doctrine.
• Caterpillar- A rapacious person; an extortioner; one who preys upon society. In early times distinctly transferred, and used synonymously with the earlier piller, but afterwards only fig. with conscious reference to the literal sense.
• Constable: a police officer.
• Coquette: a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.
• Cream Cheese- This is a reference to the actual cheese. In context it is a simile that implies a frown would wrinkle her forehead like cream the surface of cream cheese is wrinkled by a utensil.
• Dissembling- action of the word dissemble seen previously in
• Doomsday Book: a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
• Expedient: a means to an end
• Gorgon: Classical Mythology . any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone. Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by Perseus.
• Groat: a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
• Licentious: sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
• Messalina's Poems: "Mincing may mean either "Miscellany Poems" or some anonymous collection of obscene lyrics, attributed to Messalina, dissolute wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius (Henderson 402)."
• Non Compos: out of one's mind; non compos mentis. and non compos poopoo. alcohol intoxicated.
• Odium: intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
• Packthread: a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
• Perfidious: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.
• Philander: to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
• Physic- - to treat with or administer medicine to; especially : purge
• Profligate: utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
• Proviso: a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced.
• Punsters- A person who makes puns, esp. habitually or skilfully.
• Respite: reprieve, relief
• Scurrilous: grossly or obscenely abusive
• Shoals- A large number of persons thronging together or classed together
• Spleen- Regarded as the seat of melancholy or morose feelings
• Threepennyworth- The quantity that is worth, or costs, threepence
• Tittle- The smallest or a very small part of something; a minute amount
• Trulls: strumpet
• Venial: able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin
• Wantonness- Arrogance, insolence of triumph or prosperity
• Wheedled- To entice or persuade by soft flattering words; to gain over or take in by coaxing or cajolery
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