Italian and Spanish

For grammatical abbreviations

ABBREVIATIONS

Vocabulary

Item	Example	Translation
alla (prep.)	TS I.ii.25	to the
basta (v.)	TS I.i.195	enough
ben trovato	TS I.ii.24	well met
ben venuto	TS I.ii.25	welcome
bona (adj.)	2H6 IV.vii.52	good
casa (n. f.)	TS I.ii.25	house
chi (pron.)	LLL IV.ii.97	who
con (prep.)	TS I.ii.24	with
coragio (n. m.)	Tem V.i.257	courage
cuore (n. m.)	TS I.ii.24	heart
Diablo (n. m.)	Oth II.iii.155	Devil
gens (n. f.)	2H6 IV.vii.52	people
honorato (v.)	TS I.ii.26	honoured
il (det. m.)	TS I.ii.24	the
mala (n. m.)	2H6 IV.vii.52	evil
mi (pron.)	TS I.i.25	me
mio (det.)	TS I.ii.26	my
molto (adv.)	TS I.ii.26	most
non (part.)	LLL IV.ii.97	not
nostra (det.)	TS I.ii.25	our
passa (v.)	TNK III.v.87	go by
perdonato (v.)	TS I.i.25	excuse
pretia (v.)	LLL IV.ii.97	prize
roba (n.f.)	2H4 III.ii.22	material
signor (n. m.)	TS I.ii.26	mister
terra (n. f.)	2H6 IV.vii.52	country
ti (pron.)	LLL IV.ii.97	you
tutto (adj.)	TS I.ii.24	all
vede (v.)	LLL IV.ii.97	see
Venetia (n. f.)	LLL IV.ii.96	Venice
via (int.)	E3 II.ii.12	away!

The motto described by Thaisa in Per II.ii.27 as ‘Spanish’ - pue per doleera kee per forsa [‘more by gentleness than by force’] - is actually much closer to Italian.

Q item	Probable Italian word	Translation
doleera	dolcezza	gentleness
forsa	forza	force
kee	que	than
per		by
pue	piu	more

Similarly, the utterances by Pistol (2H4 II.iv.176 and 2H4 V.v.99) are garbled mixtures of Italian and Spanish: Si fortune me tormente sperato me contento and Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta (‘If fortune torments me, hope contents me’). Christopher Sly (TS induction.1.5)

also seems to be attempting Spanish in his paucas pallabris (‘few words’, i.e. ‘be brief’), elliptically but accurately uttered by Dogberry as palabras (MA III.v.15). The only other piece of Spanish is Don Armado’s fortuna de la guerra (LLL V.ii.528), ‘the fortunes of war’.