Inveni fateor in rege monachum, claustrum in curia, in palatio monasterii disciplinam. I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.

-St Aelred of Riveaulx   d.1167
?c.1160  Lament for David I, King of Scotland. Quoted in  John Fordoun Chronicle of Scotland (c.1384), bk.5, ch.43.

Quhen Alysaunder oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in lauche and le, Away wes sons of alle and brede, Off wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle; Oure gold wes changyd in to lede. Cryst, borne in to virgynyte, Succour Scotland, and remede, That stad is in perplexyte.

-Anonymous
c.1286  Lines said to have been written after the death of Alexander II of Scotland, the earliest extant piece of Scottish verse. Quoted in the Original Chronicle of  Andrew Wyntoun (c.1420), bk.7.

Four and twenty Yankees, feeling very dry, Went across the border to get a drink of rye. When the rye was opened, theYanks began to sing, 'God bless America, but God save the King!'

-Anonymous
c.1919  Ditty current in Canada, referring to  Americans crossing the border to drink during Prohibition. The Duke of  Windsor, later Edward VIII, heard it during his tour of Canada (1919) and repeatedit to his father, George V, onhis return, as he recalledin A King's Story (1951).

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

Marie Hamilton's to the kirk gane, Wi'ribbons in her hair; The king thought mair o'Marie Hamilton Than ony that were there.

-Ballads
'Marie Hamilton', opening lines.

The king sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine; 'O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?'

-Ballads
'Sir Patrick Spens', opening lines.

The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges17:6.

   And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said,O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee,OAbsalom, my son, my son!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel18:33.

Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 8:5.

God save the king.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel10:24.

A certain man drewa bowat a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 22:34.

Sowill Igo in untothe king, which isnot according tothe law: and if I perish, I perish.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Esther 4:16.

   Lift up your heads,O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The L strong and mighty, the L mighty in battle.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 24:7^8.

The king's heart is in the hand of the L, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 21:1.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 4:13.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes10:20.

The first wrote,Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote,Women are strongest: but above all thingsTruth beareth away the victory.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Esdras 3:10^12.

Honoura physicianwiththehonourdueuntohim for the uses whichye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. 108

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 38:1^2.

And whenhewas atthelast gasp, hesaid,Thou likea fury takest us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise us up, who have died for his laws, unto everlasting life.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Maccabees 7:9.