Knowell

Old Knowell, in Ben Jonson's play of "Every Man in his Humour."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

He appears first as Brainworm; after as Fitz-Sword; then as a reformed soldier whom Knowell takes into his service; then as justice Clement's man; and lastly as valet to the courts of law, by which devices he plays upon the same clique of some half-dozen men of average intelligence.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

BRAIN'WORM, the servant of Knowell, a man of infinite shifts, and a regular Proteus in his metamorphoses.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Knowell stands, however, at the head of a numerous and respectable class of persons, who may be entitled Philosophic Coxcombs.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Fancy off — the Lady Knowell speaking to Isabella all this while.

Sir Patient Fancy 1678

Sir Father, here's my Lady Knowell and her Family come to see you.

Sir Patient Fancy 1678

Smattering to my Mistress, hah, and therefore wou'd not be wanting to give me a lift out of this world, but I shall give him such a go-by — my Lady Knowell understands the difference between

Sir Patient Fancy 1678

_ Smattering to my Mistress, hah, and therefore wou'd not be wanting to give me a lift out of this World; but I shall give her such a go-by -- my Lady _Knowell_ understands the difference between three

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

-- But, Madam, I hope Mr. _Knowell_ was not uncivil to your Ladyship.

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

Isabella, however, has made an assignation with Lodwick at the same time that her stepmother eagerly awaits her own gallant, and in the dark young Knowell is by mistake escorted to Lucia's chamber, whilst Wittmore encountering Isabella, and thinking her Lady Fancy, proceeds to act so amorously that the error is soon discovered and the girl flies from his ardour.

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664