Act I :

• Till then, enjoy your dolce far niente - delightful idleness
• With pleasure, nobody contradicente - if nobody disagrees
• Ben venuti - welcome
• Gondolieri carissimi! Siamo contadine! - Dearest gondoliers! We are peasant girls!
• servitori umilissimi! - most humble servants!
• Per chi questi fiori bellissimi? - For whom are these most beautiful flowers?
• Per voi, bei signori, O eccellentissimi! - For you, dear gentlemen, oh most excellent ones!
• I ciel! - Oh, heaven!
• Buon giorno, cavalieri - Good morning, gentlemen
• Siamo gondolieri / poveri gondolieri - We are gondoliers / poor gondoliers
• Signorina, io t'amo! / Contadine siamo. - Lady, I love you! Peasant girls are we.
• Since we were short-coated - wearing children's cloths
• Castilian Hilalgo of 95 quarterings - Spanish nobleman, with 95 families in his heraldic shield, representing a fabulous array of noble ancestry.
• The halberdiers are mercenary people - Guardsmen armed with ax-like spears
• Married by proxy - with someone acting on your behalf, in your absence
• very knowing, overflowing, easygoing Paladin - heroic, chivalrous knight of old
• To men of grosser clay - of less distinguished and noble blood (clay = body)
• Jimp, isn't she - Slender and elegant
• teach him the trade of a Timoneer - from French timonier, helmsman or steersman
• lying a corpse on his humble bier - the stand on which a corpse or coffin is placed
• your objections are not insuperable - impossible to overcome
• 'tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a regular Royal Queen! - I fancy, or believe
• She'll bear sway the bell - take first prize; win the contest
• the Chancellor in his peruke - powdered wig
• Aristocrat who banks with Coutts - long-established London bank, used by royalty
• the noble lord who cleans the plate - silver or gold tableware or ornaments

Act II :

• Of happiness the very pith in Barataria you may see - essence
• This form of government we find / The beau ideal of its kind - model of excellence
• we may hold a Royal Levée - a court reception or gathering, in morning or early afternoon
• spend an hour in titivating all our Gentlemen-in-Waiting - sprucing up, smartening
• the Garter or the Thistle or the Bath - high orders of knighthood
• toddle of in semi-state - dressed for ordinary ceremonial occasions; but no crown, etc.
• having passed the Rubicon - the point of no return; a river significantly crossed by Caesar
• Take a pretty little cot - cottage
• Dance a cachuca, fandango, bolero - lively Spanish dances
• Xeres we'll drink Manzanilla, Montero - Xeres is sherry, the other are varieties of it
• Tuck in his tuppenny - schoolboy slang used in leapfrog, meaning "duck his head," tuppenny meaning two-penny coin, referring to the head
• at junket or at jink - words for merrymaking
• must be content with toddy - drink of distilled spirits, sugar, and hot water. Rich people drank wine, while beer and distilled spirits were drunk by the less well-off.
• Lord Chancellors were cheap as sprats - small fish, like anchovies or sardines
• up goes the price of shoddy - cheap fabric made from reclaimed wool
• I tried to tame your great progenitor - father
• with double-shotted guns and colours nailed unto the mast - cannons loaded with twice the usual shot (a reckless tactic) and flag nailed so it cannot be lowered in surrender
• MPs baronetted, sham colonels gazetted - Members of Parliament raised to the rank of baronet (above knight); The London Gazette listed government appointments
• Quote me as their great double-barrel - one with a hyphenated name, signifying status
• I set ... upon the direction of several Companies bubble - a delusive scheme
• merrily crying our " premé, " " stalì " - calls used by gondoliers to avoid collisions