true-penny

Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, true-penny?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

This happy serenity bore him company through the bare echoing corridors of the hotel to the office, to be heightened by the gratulations of the landlord and the help, who seemed to feel that a vicarious honor had been done the house, a most insinuating form of hero-worship which attained its climax in the homage of the true-penny who set forth his morning bitters on the bar.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

He mistrusts the apparition which he had called an honest ghost ( 'true-penny'): --

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

Ah, ha, boy! sayst thou so? art thou there, true-penny?

Act I. Scene V. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

` ` Aha, old true-penny! '' replied the Antiquary.

The Antiquary 1845

Ha, ha, boy I say'st thou so? art thou there, true-penny?

The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators 1793

'true-penny' forgotten -- a word used by Hamlet [60] to designate his father's ghost as a true and genuine one; nor the 'Hillo, ho, ho.'

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis