| 1H4 II.i.98 | [Gadshill to Chamberlain] Farewell, you muddy knave |
| 1H4 III.iii.119 | [Hostess to Falstaff, of his calling her a ‘thing’] thou art a knave to call me so |
| 2H4 I.ii.35 | [Falstaff to Page, of the tailor] A rascally yea-forsooth knave |
| 2H4 II.i.36 | [Hostess to Fang and Snare, of Falstaff's behaviour] There is no honesty in such dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass, and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong |
| 2H4 V.i.28 | [Shallow to Davy, of Falstaff's men] they are arrant knaves, and will backbite |
| 2H4 V.iii.64 | [Shallow to Bardolph, of Davy] The knave will stick by thee |
| 2H4 V.iv.1 | [Hostess to First Beadle] thou arrant knave! |
| 2H6 I.ii.100 | [Hume alone] They say ‘A crafty knave does need no broker’ |
| 2H6 I.iii.21 | [Suffolk to Second Petitioner] How now, sir knave! |
| 2H6 II.i.103 | [Gloucester to all, of Simpcox] A subtle knave! |
| 2H6 II.i.124 | [Gloucester to Simpcox] sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom |
| 2H6 II.iii.86 | [Horner to all, of Peter] I am come hither ... to prove him a knave and myself an honest man |
| 2H6 II.iii.91 | [York to all, of Horner] Dispatch; this knave's tongue begins to double |
| AC I.ii.74 | [Iras as if to Isis, of Alexas] it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded |
| AC I.iv.21 | [Caesar to Lepidus, of Antony] Let's grant it is not / Amiss ... [to] stand the buffet / With knaves that smells of sweat |
| AC II.v.102 | [Cleopatra to Messenger, of Antony] O, that his fault should make a knave of thee |
| AW I.iii.8 | [Countess to Steward, of the Clown] What does this knave here? |
| AW II.ii.25 | [Clown to Countess] as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave |
| AW II.iii.262 | [Lafew to Parolles] You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave |
| AW II.iv.27 | [Parolles to Clown] Away! Th'art a knave |
| AW III.v.16 | [Mariana to Widow, of Parolles] I know that knave, hang him! |
| AW III.v.81 | [Diana to Helena, of Parolles and Bertram] Yond's that same knave / That leads him to these places |
| AW IV.iii.101 | [Second Lord to Bertram, of Parolles] Has sat i'th'stocks all night, poor gallant knave |
| AW IV.v.16 | [Lafew to Clown] They are not herbs, you knave, they are nose-herbs |
| AW IV.v.61 | [Lafew to Countess, of the Clown] A shrewd knave and an unhappy |
| AW V.ii.23 | [Clown to Lafew, of Parolles] he looks like a poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knave |
| AW V.ii.47 | [Lafew to Parolles] Out upon thee, knave! |
| AW V.iii.249 | [King to Parolles, responding to his equivocation ‘He loved her, sir, and loved her not’] As thou art a knave and no knave |
| AYL I.ii.70 | [Touchstone to Rosalind and Celia] swear by your beards that I am a knave |
| AYL III.ii.288 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Celia as Aliena, of Orlando] I will speak to him like a saucy lackey, and under that habit play the knave with him |
| AYL III.iii.97 | [Sir Oliver alone] ne'er a fantastical knave of them all shall flout me out of my calling |
| CE I.ii.72 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Ephesus] Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness |
| CE III.i.64 | [Adriana to Antipholus of Ephesus] Your wife, sir knave? Go get you from the door |
| Cor II.i.74 | [Menenius to Brutus and Sicinius, of the people they represent] All the peace you make in their cause is calling both the parties knaves |
| Cor III.ii.115 | [Coriolanus to all] The smiles of knaves / Tent in my cheeks |
| Cor III.iii.33 | [Coriolanus to all] an ostler, that for th'poorest piece / Will bear the knave by th'volume [i.e. for a small tip will put up with being called a rogue any number of times] |
| Cym I.vi.75.2 | [Queen alone, of Pisanio] A sly and constant knave |
| H5 III.ii.119 | [Macmorris to all, of his nation] Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal |
| H5 IV.viii.34 | [Fluellen to King Henry, of Williams] what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave it is |
| H5 V.i.6 | [Fluellen to Gower] the rascally, scauld, beggarly, lousy, pragging knave, Pistol |
| H5 V.i.66 | [Gower to Pistol] Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly knave |
| H8 V.i.132 | [King Henry to all] At what ease / Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt / To swear against you? |
| H8 V.iv.69 | [Lord Chamberlain] Where are these porters, / These lazy knaves? |
| Ham I.v.124 | [Hamlet to Horatio] There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark-- / But he's an arrant knave |
| JC I.i.15 | [Flavius to Cobbler] What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade? |
| KJ I.i.243 | [Lady Faulconbridge to Bastard] What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave? |
| KL I.ii.122 | [Edmund alone] we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves |
| KL I.iv.311 | [Gonerill to Fool] You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master! |
| KL I.iv.79 | [Lear to Oswald, of what he has said] ‘My lady's father’, my lord's knave! |
| KL II.ii.124 | [Cornwall to Kent] You stubborn ancient knave |
| KL II.ii.13 | [disguised Kent, to and of Oswald] A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats |
| KL II.ii.67 | [Cornwall to disguised Kent] You beastly knave, know you no reverence? |
| KL II.ii.86 | [Kent to Cornwall, of Oswald] No contraries hold more antipathy / Than I and such a knave |
| KL II.ii.99 | [Cornwall to all, of disguised Kent] These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness / Harbour more craft |
| KL II.iv.73 | [Fool to disguised Kent, of a fool's counsel] I would ha' none but knaves use it |
| MA III.iii.30 | [Dogberry to Second Watchman] thank God you are rid of a knave |
| MA III.v.30 | [Verges to Leonato] our watch tonight ... ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant knaves as any in Messina |
| MA IV.ii.21 | [Dogberry to Conrade and Borachio] you are little better than false knaves |
| MA IV.ii.28 | [Dogberry to Conrade and Borachio] I say to you, it is thought you are false knaves |
| MA V.i.209 | [Dogberry to Don Pedro, of Conrade and Borachio] they are lying knaves |
| MA V.i.307 | [Dogberry to Leonato] I leave an arrant knave with your worship |
| MM II.i.224 | [Pompey to Escalus] If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds |
| MM V.i.350 | [Lucio to disguised Duke] Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you |
| MM V.i.353 | [Duke to Lucio] Thou art the first knave that e'er mad'st a duke |
| MV II.iii.12 | [Launcelot to Jessica] If a Christian did not play the knave and get thee, I am much deceived |
| MW I.i.170 | [Slender to all] If I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves |
| MW I.iv.53 | [Caius to Mistress Quickly] Vere is dat knave Rugby? [or: sense 2] |
| MW II.i.158 | [Ford to Page, of Pistol] You heard what this knave told me, did you not? |
| MW II.ii.253 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of Ford] the jealous rascally knave |
| MW II.ii.257 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of Ford] Hang him, poor cuckoldy knave! |
| MW II.ii.270 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of Ford] Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style |
| MW III.i.14 | [Evans alone, of Caius] I will knog his urinals about his knave's costard when I have good opportunities |
| MW III.i.62 | [Evans to Page, of Caius] he is a knave besides, a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal |
| MW III.i.80 | [Evans to Caius] I will knog your urinals about your knave's cogscombs for missing your meetings and appointments |
| MW III.iii.187 | [Ford to all, of Falstaff] Maybe the knave bragged of that he could not compass |
| MW III.iii.225 | [Evans to Caius] remembrance tomorrow on the lousy knave, mine host |
| MW III.v.92 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of the servants] They took me on their shoulders, met the jealous knave their master in the door |
| MW IV.v.110 | [Falstaff to Mistress Quickly] the knave constable had set me i'th' stocks [or: adjective use] |
| MW V.i.16 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook] That same knave Ford ... hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him |
| MW V.v.110 | [Ford to Falstaff] Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldy knave |
| Oth II.i.231 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Cassio] a knave very voluble |
| Oth II.i.238 | [Iago to Roderigo, of Cassio] a devilish knave! Besides, the knave is handsome |
| Oth II.iii.142 | [Cassio to Roderigo] A knave teach me my duty? I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle |
| Oth III.iii.120 | [Othello to Iago] a false disloyal knave |
| Oth IV.i.25 | [Iago to Othello, of certain men] as knaves be such abroad |
| Oth IV.ii.138 | [Emilia to Desdemona and Iago] The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave |
| Per II.i.57 | [Second Fisherman to Pericles] What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our way! |
| RJ II.iv.150 | [Nurse to Romeo, of Mercutio] Scurvy knave! |
| RJ II.iv.152 | [Nurse to Peter] thou must stand by too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure! |
| RJ IV.v.142 | [First Musician to Second Musician, of Peter] What a pestilent knave is this same! |
| TC V.i.85 | [Thersites alone] Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave |
| TC V.iv.28 | [Thersites to Hector] I am a rascal, a scurvy railing knave, a very filthy rogue |
| Tem II.i.171 | [Antonio aside to Sebastian, of the subjects in Gonzalo's kingdom] all idle: whores and knaves |
| Tem V.i.268 | [Prospero to all, of Caliban] This misshapen knave |
| TG III.i.262 | [Launce alone] I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a knave; but that's all one if he be but one knave |
| Tim I.i.184 | [Apemantus to Timon, of the Athenians] When ... these knaves [are] honest |
| Tim I.i.253 | [Apemantus to himself, of the Athenians] That there should be small love amongst these sweet knaves, / And all this courtesy! |
| Tim I.i.265 | [Apemantus to Second Lord, of dining at Timon's] to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools |
| Tim II.ii.108 | [Apemantus to Varro's Servant] we may account thee a whoremaster and a knave |
| Tim III.iv.118 | [Timon to Flavius] let in the tide / Of knaves once more |
| Tim III.iv.60 | [Flavius to Servants] you serve knaves |
| Tim IV.iii.217 | [Apemantus to Timon] Thou gavest thine ears, like tapsters that bade welcome, / To knaves and all approachers |
| Tim IV.iii.239.3 | [Timon to and of Apemantus] What, a knave too? |
| Tim IV.iii.277 | [Timon to Apemantus] If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, / Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer |
| Tim IV.iii.481 | [Timon to Flavius] All I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains [or: sense 2] |
| Tim V.i.91 | [Timon to Poet and Painter] There's never a one of you but trusts a knave / That mightily deceives you |
| TN II.iii.62 | [Sir Andrew to Feste and Sir Toby] Let our catch be ‘Thou knave’ |
| TN V.i.204 | [Sir Toby to and of Sir Andrew] An asshead, and a coxcomb, and a knave--a thin-faced knave, a gull! |
| TN V.i.392 | [Feste singing] 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate |
| TS I.ii.109 | [Grumio to Hortensio, of Katherina and Petruchio] She may perhaps call him half-a-score knaves or so |
| TS I.ii.12 | [Petruchio to Grumio] rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate |
| TS III.i.45 | [Hortensio as Licio to Lucentio as Cambio] The bass is right, 'tis the base knave that jars |
| TS IV.i.143 | [Petruchio to Katherina, of the Servant] A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave! |
| TS V.i.83 | [Tranio as Lucentio to an Officer, of Vincentio] Carry this mad knave to the gaol |