Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

knave a lad, a servant: “my good knave Costard!” LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iii. 1. 135 ; “good my knave,” LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iii. 1. 143 ; “O, my knave,” ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, ii. 4. 17 ; “Poor knave,” JULIUS CAESAR, iv. 3. 239 ; “Gentle knave,” JULIUS CAESAR, iv. 3. 267 ; “Where's my knave?” KING LEAR, i. 4. 42 ; “my friendly knave,” KING LEAR, i. 4. 92 ; “my pretty knave,” KING LEAR, i. 4. 95 ; “My good knave Eros . . . my knave,” ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 14. 12 ; “he's but Fortune's knave,” ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v. 2. 3 ; “a couple of Ford's knaves,” THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iii. 5. 87 ; “all I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains” TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 3. 478 ( “knave is here in the compound sense of a servant and a rascal,” JOHNSON) ; “Whip me such honest knaves” OTHELLO, i. 1. 49. ( “knave is here for servant, but with a sly mixture of contempt,” JOHNSON)