Act I :

• Mrs. Partlet, a pew opener - one who escorts Wealthy parishioners to their pew, in exchange for tips; a poor but worthy person
• Forget your knells - funereal bell-ringing
• Forget your notes of mournful lay - song
• The air is charged with amatory numbers - romantic music
• I was a fair young curate then - assistant to a vicar or rector
• she is rather comely - good-looking
• But tush ! I am puling ! - tush is a mild expletive; puling is whining
• most auspicious plighting - fortunate engagement
• Ere Sol has sunk into his western slumbers - Roman name of the sun god
• may their love never cloy - become tiresome
• I find some satisfaction in apostrophe like this - in a speech or poem, an exclamatory address to a person or object
• not a navvy dissented - unskilled worker (e.g. a ditch digger)
• Philtre - a love potion
• Necromancy -magic; particularly, foretelling the future by communicating with the dead
• Amulets - objects worn on the person to bring good luck
• cast you a nativity at a low figure - determine planetary positions at the time of your birth, for an astrological reading
• Abudah chests , each containing a patent Hag... with spring complete - in the pseudo-Persian fairy tale by James Ridley, Abudah had a box containing an old woman prophet
• melt a rich uncle in wax - melt a wax image of someone, to kill them
• the resident Djinn - same as genie; supernatural spirit in Arabian mythology
• Number 70, Simmery Axe - St. Mary Axe, a street in the older part of London
• for raising a posthumous shade - ghost
• Bogies spectacular - goblins, or bogey men
• Tetrapods tragical - a form of verse used by ancient Greek tragedians
• 'Lectrobiology - early term for hypnosis
• Mystic nosology - study of diseases
• Spirit philology - study of language and literature
• we are not in the habit of puffing our goods - exaggerating the worth
• taking it in the wood ... in pipes and hogsheads for laying down - terms from wine wholesaling; laying down long-term storing; pipes & hogsheads = large barrels
• noisome bags of night - smelly and disgusting
• Ye demons fell with yelp and yell - villainous
• now for the gay Sally Lund - type of tea-cake or bun; usually served with butter and jam
• I will go bail for the liquor - I will vouch for it
• brewing a jorum of tea - a large drinking vessel
• great garner of bliss - storehouse

Act II :

• I did not think it meet to see - fitting or appropriate
• a Baronet and K. C. B. - Knight Commander of the Bath, an order of knighthood
• that respectable Q. C. - Queen's Counsel, a high-ranking lawyer; namely the Notary
• all fast asleep al-fresco-Iy - outdoors; alfresco is Italian for "in the cool"
• I've guineas not a few for you - old coin worth one shilling more than a pound
• the Blind Young Boy obeys the spell - Cupid
• why do you gaze on me with visage lowering - threatening
• I often roll down One Tree Hill - hill in Greenwich Park which couples sometimes rolled down together (presumably not a high-class activity)
• I sometimes go to Rosherville - a lower class amusement park
• o'er us has cast its magic fell - sinister. malevolent
• must yield up his life to Ahrimanes - in Persian mythology, the personification of evil