truepenny
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When Hamlet, in the scene on the midnight terrace, addresses the ghost as "old mole," "old truepenny," etc., we may be sure that he is in a frenzy of excitement and apprehension.
From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay
What have we here? old truepenny come to town, to fetch away the living in his old greasy slops?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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