"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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“What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
And all alone comes riding there
The King that could make his people stare,
Because he had feathers instead of hair.
A slow low note and an iron bell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)