"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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“And this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,
That whatsoever king shall reign,
I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.”
—Unknown. The Vicar of Bray (l. 9–12)