assurance: often meant to signify "legal guarantee"

belike: perhaps

cambio: Italian for "change" or "exchange"

countenance: face, or identity

demicannon: large cannon

dower: that part of a man's estate that passes to his wife's ownership should he die

froward: perverse

gamut: musical scale

habiliments: clothes

halt: signifies very often in the play to "move slowly"

mead: meadow

mean: often used to signify "plain"

pantaloon: a foolish old man

plash: pool

spleen: mood or temper (as the spleen was considered to be the source of anger and laughter)

stale: laughingstock

third-borough: constable

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