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titled one story in her 1980 collection, "The Beggar Maid". Before her marriage to
Patrick, Rose is told by him: "You're like the Beggar Maid." "Who?" "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid. You know. The painting." The American edition of Munro's collection is also titled
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Walking out into the street, he scatters coins for the beggars to gather and when
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257:(1723), a ballad titled "Cupid's Revenge"—which is a mere paraphrase of "The King and the Beggar-maid"—appears set to the music of "I Often with My Jenny Strove". This may be the original air of the Cophetua ballad.
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It has also been used to name a sexual desire for lower-class women by upper-class men. Although often attributed first to
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to women. One day, looking out of a palace window, he witnesses a young beggar, Penelophon, "clad all in grey". Struck by
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The oldest version of the tale surviving is that titled "A Song of a Beggar and a King" in
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Allusion Pointing to the Date of
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Thelma G. James (1933), "The
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THE A’EFAULD FORM O’ THE MAZE: THE WRITING OF HUGH MACDIARMID, 1922–1935 – COURSE GUIDE
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included his poem "Cophetua", inspired by the legend, in his 1958 book
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Cophetua", Op. 24, in 1910.
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162:(V, viii, 80), and
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317:prose poem
187:Ben Jonson
159:Richard II
64:Zenelophon
60:Penelophon
623:pp. 45–49
377:Pygmalion
368:Pygmalion
359:cineaste
125:low class
639:, Vol. 2
433:Cophetua
236:(1765).
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202:The Wits
179:Henry IV
167:, part 2
165:Henry IV
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29:Painting
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