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rules the roast  – to rule the roast means to be at the head of all affairs

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had sown his wild oats  – to sow one’s wild oats means to do wild things before getting married (often to have a lot of sexual relationships)

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to set her cap at him  – setting one’s cap at a man = trying to attract a man

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blacklegs  – a blackleg is a cheat or a swindler

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boobies and bedlamites  – fools and madmen

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felo-de-se  – a suicide

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from “Hymns and Spiritual Songs” by John Newton (1816)

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laudanum  – tincture of opium

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media-via  – a compromise or a middle way ( Latin )

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ni-jamais-ni-toujours  – neither never nor always ( French )

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d—d  – cursed, devil’s

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habit  – here: clothes, dress

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hunter  – a horse trained specially for hunting

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ennui  – boredom ( French )

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physic  – to give medicine, to cure

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‘ sweet regent of the sky’  – quotation from William Julius Mickle (1735–1788), a Scottish poet

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‘black blue vault of heaven’  – from William Wordsworth’s poem “A Night Piece” (1798)

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However we do praise ourselves…  – William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night,” Act II, Scene 2.

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curtain lecture  – a reproof or a scolding that a wife gives to her husband when they are alone

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cared a stiver  – used in negative, archaic meaning of no value as a stiver was a coin (one twentieth of a Netherlands’ guilder)

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from “The Country Lass” (Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics).

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the fowls of heaven and the lilies of the fields  – from Gospel, Scripture: Matthew. Here Hattersley can’t keep from blasphemy

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The light of the body is the eye. If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light . – one more quotation from Gospel by Matthew.

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white-livered  – a coward, synonym to chicken-heart

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ante-room  – a small room that one passed to reach a larger one

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par parenthèse  – incidentally ( French )

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Ye twain shall be one flesh – from the Bible (Mark 10:8), said during the wedding ceremony

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tartar-emetic  – tartaric acid used for medical care to produce nausea

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half-seas-over  – tipsy, getting drunk

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air  – here: a song

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cant  – hypocritical

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to obtain a situation  – to get a place

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fiddle = fiddlesticks  – rubbish

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bairns  – children ( Scottish )

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a crony  – a buddy, a friend

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monomania  – obsession with something (only one thing)

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sterling worth  – here: true value

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brethren of the cloth  – from archaic “brothers,” meaning members of the same society, here of the clergy

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nominal daughter  – meaning that she was Huntingdon’s daughter

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i.e.  – from id est ( Latin ) = that is

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stalwart  – strong and well-built

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Here the coachman uses both archaic and dialect expressions. Yonder  – that, there, to that place

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gotten overed – got over, finished

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’un  – one

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Ay  – yes

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should a been wed afore  – should have been

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long purse  – she is rich

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fell out  – parted

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hopportunity  – opportunity

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’at  – that