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OE Maxims II 28 Cyning sceal on healle beagas dælan.

lOE Distichs of Cato (Trin. Cambr.) lxxx, in Anglia (1972) 90 15 Wa þære þeode þe hæfð ælðeodigne cyng—ungemetfæstne, feoh georne, & unmildheortne—for on þære þeode byð his gitsung, & his modes gnornung on his earde.

a1300 in Englische Studien (1900) 31 15 (MED) Þar þe child is kinge, and þe cherl is alderman..wa þene lede.

c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) l. 33 (MED) Ane hert..of body grete, And a coloppe for a kynge, cache hym who myghte.

1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. A.iiij Multae regum aures, atque oculi. Kynges haue many eares & manye eyes.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xii. sig. F Where as nothyng is, the kyng must lose his ryght.

1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. E ^v A King is a King, though fortune do her worst.

1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iv. xii. 429 A Kings crumme is more worth then a Lords loafe.

1659 J. Howell Eng. Prov. 3/1 in Παροιμιογραϕια The Kings cheese goes half away in parings; viz., among so many Officers.

1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 27 The King can do no wrong, that is no Process can be granted against him.

1752 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 212 Kings have long Arms, but misfortune longer.

1788 R. Burns Let. 16 Aug. (2001) I. 306 The old Scots Proverb says well—‘King's caff is better than ither folks' corn’.

1844 Jurist 7 227/2 It is true indeed, that the king never dies; the demise is immediately followed by the succession.

1864 Daily Tel. 20 Aug. Constitutional aphorists tell us that the King can do no wrong.

1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily vi. 43 Kings have many ears. Could he have heard?

1969 D. R. Cressey Theft of Nation ix. 206 The ‘law of the land’ does not apply to him. The king can do no wrong.

2010 P. Walker Courier's Tale (2011) iii. 152 You will not be pardoned for that. Remember, the King has a long arm.