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Mercutio alludes to the story of King Cophetua and the beggar maid. This medieval story goes that the King, Cophetua, couldn't find a woman he liked until he met a beggar-maid. He offered to make her queen, which she naturally accepted, and they lived happily ever after. Shakespeare alludes to it in Henry IV Part II and in Love's Labour's Lost, Don Armado compares himself to Cophetua when wooing Jaquenetta.

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