Brewer's: Happy as a King

This idea of happiness is wealth, position, freedom, and luxurious living; but Richard II. says a king is “Woe's slave” (iii. 2).

On the happiness of kings, see Shakespeare: Henry V., iv. 1.

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