Shakespeare
The noble is present in Shakespeare's theatre:
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Hostess: Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you: he says he comes from your father.
- Prince Henry: Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and send him back again to my mother.
- The royal refers to an English gold coin worth 10 shillings.
- Henry VI, Part 1:
- Shepard:'Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest
The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
- Henry V:
- Nym: I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?
- Pistol: A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
- Richard III:
- Gloucester: ...
- That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.
- Much Ado About Nothing:
- Benedick: ...noble, or not I for an angel;...
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