Brewer's: Zenelophon

A corruption of Penelophon. The beggar-maid loved by King Cophetua.

“The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenelophon.” —Shakespeare: Love's Lobour's Lost, iv. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Zenith, Nadir
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