A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
A knight in modern times would normally be addressed as ‘Sir’+first name. Shakespearean knights are often addressed as ‘knight’, ‘my dear knight’, ‘sweet knight’, etc.
There are thirteen instances of such usage in Twelfth Night, for example. Shakespeare, incidentally, would not have punned on the ‘night’ of his title and a ‘knight’ such as Sir Toby Belch. English words beginning with ‘kn-’ were mostly pronounced with the k sounded until the middle of the seventeenth century.
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