truepenny

noun

1. (capitalized, obsolete, sometimes)An honest, reliable fellow.

   “Hamlet: . . . Give me one poor request. Horatio: What is't, my lord? we will. Hamlet: Never make known what you have seen to-night. . . .Indeed, upon my sword, indeed. Ghost: [Beneath] Swear. Hamlet: Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny? Come on—you hear this fellow in the cellarage— Consent to swear.”

   “"Ha!" said Christie, "art thou there, old True-penny? here, stable me these steeds, and see them well bedded, and stretch thine old limbs by rubbing them down; and see thou quit not the stable till there is not a turned hair on either of them."”

   “"Duncan! you are, what I call, a clear-minded man. Well worth thinking of, old Truepenny!"”

   “"Hear me, Father Almighty. . . . Are you there, old Truepenny?"”