"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a story, hard to trace before the Renaissance, which tells of the King Cophetua and his love for the beggar Penelophon (or Zenelophon).
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“I think the King is but a man, as I am. The violet smells to
him as it doth to me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)