Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 5.
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 1.
[405:2] Shakespeare, who alludes to this ballad in "Love's Labour's Lost," act iv. sc. 1, gives the beggar's name Zenelophon. The story of the king and the beggar is also alluded to in "King Richard II.," act v. sc. 3.
[405:3] Quoted in "Hamlet," act iv. sc. 3.
[405:4] See Shakespeare, page [51].