At the end of Act IV of King Lear, Edgar, disguised as the Poor Tom, the crazy beggar, babbles " Child Rowland to the dark tower came ", an allusion itself to the fairy tale of Childe Rowland.

In Shakespeare's King Lear ( IV, i ( 1605 )), he is one of the five fiends Edgar ( in the posture of a beggar, Tom o ' Bedlam ) claimed was possessing him.

* Tom Waits ' song " Heartattack and Vine " includes the line " Doctor, lawyer, beggar man, thief ".

But it was foolish for anyone to feel sympathy and give a beggar something, for then the shouting would rise to a howl.

Its name is something of a contradiction: a trading organisation for a group of people who, by definition, don't actually trade in anything, except perhaps in the feeling on the part of the donator that he or she has done a good deed, or, and this is far more frequent, the peace of mind of knowing that the beggar, now appeased, will not bother the donator any more.

Living a variety of lives, from beggar woman to hero to gambler, she eventually becomes the leader of a terrorist group known as the Dark Circle, and finds something that caused her to feel emotion-sending an entire fleet to its death.

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion ( 1912, staged 1914 ) owes something to both the Greek Pygmalion and the legend of " King Cophetua and the beggar maid "; in which a King lacks interest in women, but one day falls in love with a young beggar-girl, later educating her to be his Queen.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful.

The term in time came to mean " a beggar ", and that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages ; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily poor, he may have been landless.

Cleopatra envisions herself as the embodiment of Egypt because she has been nurtured and moulded by the environment fed by “ the dung, / the beggar ’ s nurse and Caesar ’ s ” ( 5. 2. 7-8 ).

Diogenes Laërtius preserves several different accounts of this story ; one of them has Crates giving his money away to the citizens of Thebes, apparently after seeing the beggar king Telephus in a tragedy ; whereas another account has him placing his money in the hands of a banker, with the agreement that he should deliver it to his sons, unless they too became philosophers, in which case he should distribute it among the poor.

The young nobleman who escorted Sophia from the play, Lord Fellamar, approaches Lady Bellaston and declares his love for Sophia, and she says she will promote his cause with her father, although pointing out that he has a rival for her affection — ' a beggar, a bastard, a foundling, a fellow in meaner circumstances than one of your lordship's own footmen.

The village character has changed little from a 17th century description that " it had not a beggar, .. an alehouse .. a Protestant in it ..." In 2009 Protestants reside in the village as old values change-Protestant inhabitants however must be ' vetted ' by the local Squire before occupation of one of the 50 or so dwellings.

On the street, after work, Charity gives to every beggar who approaches her until she realizes she has no money.

The term has become a common Urdu, Bengali, and Hindi byword for " beggar ".

It has become a common Urdu and Hindi word for ‘ beggar .’

The penny is valuable and the beggar ends up with wealth after the rich man's avarice has bankrupted him.

The year 1924 saw the publication of Premchand's Rangabhumi, which has a blind beggar called Surdas as its tragic hero.

At the end of the day when the king calls for his story, the Storyteller confesses he has no story, and instead tells the king the true tale of his adventures under the magic of the beggar that day.

: Apparently a moustachioed young beggar, Jacky is actually a woman from a noble family who has taken a new identity to search for Dog-Face Joe, who switched bodies with her fiancé and caused her to kill him.

Bartimaeus, the blind beggar whom Jesus healed, called him the Son of David in 10: 47, although Jesus has not referred to himself in this manner directly, an interesting choice for Mark to make, fitting with his theme of the Messianic Secret.

Komachi's old age is also frequently portrayed: when she has lost her beauty, has been abandoned by her former lovers, and now regrets her life, wandering around as a lonely beggar woman — albeit still appreciated by young admirers of her poetry.

Wishing Moon follows the tale of Aminah Barnes, a beggar orphan who is thrown Aladdin's magical lamp by an unwitting princess, Badr Al-Budur, after Aladdin has married her.

She schemes with the captain of her guard, Saladin, to assassinate Aladdin and use the jinni to seize the throne, but has much difficulty locating Aminah because she underestimates the girl's wits by looking only for beggar girls, especially ones with too much money.

The Synoptics state that Jesus met a beggar ( Mark gives the name: bar-Timai or son of Timai ) who, though blind, still identified Jesus as the Jewish Messiah ; Jesus said that the man's faith has healed him, and he " received his sight ," and was allowed to follow Jesus.

One of the most prominent characters is the beggar Altogether Andrews, who has multiple distinct personalities — none of which are named Andrews — each with their own memories and manner of speaking.

The beggar is arrested and locked up at the police station, and Holmes initially is quite convinced that Mr. St. Clair has been the unfortunate victim of murder.

According to one version of the legend, found in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry published in 1765, the beggar was said to be Henry, the son of Simon de Montfort, but Percy himself declared that this version was not genuine.

Upon returning, Li Tieh-Kuai's spirit found that his body had been cremated and had to enter the only body available at the time, the corpse of the homeless beggar who had just died of starvation.

In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar ..."

This Roman connection stemmed from an earlier Syriac legend which recounted that during the episcopate of Bishop Rabbula ( 412-435 ) a " Man of God " who lived in Edessa, Mesopotamia as a beggar, and who shared the alms he received with other poor people, was found to be a native of Rome after his death.

The legend of Circassian women was also repeated by legal theorist Gustav Hugo, who wrote that " Even beauty is more likely to be found in a Circassian slave girl than in a beggar girl ", referring to the fact that even a slave has some security and safety, but a " free " beggar has none.

This position betrayed him as Sennin Tekkay, whose soul has found the second life in the body of the lame beggar.

The tale " Manannan at Play " features the god as a clown and beggar who turns out to be a harper.

Before he enters, however, his appearance turns back into that of a beggar.

As it turns out, however, he merely goes there to borrow a costume from one of his tragedies, Telephus, in which the hero disguises himself as a beggar.

In a panic he roams the castle grounds, running into a magical beggar who turns him into a flea.

In the island of Aradus, opposite the town, Peter finds a miserable beggar woman, who turns out to be Clement's mother.

That man turns out to be the god Plutus — who is, contrary to all expectations, a blind beggar.

After meeting with the beggar, the king, believing he's afflicted by leprosy, feels compelled to remove his mask ; he then tears his own eyes out and leaves his city.

When a knock came on the door one more time Worth grabbed a bucket of filthy water and threw it out of the door at the caller, only to find that it wasn't the beggar but the Queen standing there, and he had just soaked her.

After 1920 Hagerty lived on the streets of Chicago in conditions of dire poverty, eking out a meager existence as a beggar.

The beggar then reveals to the court that it is Sir Orfeo himself who is speaking to them and when the steward recovers, he is assured by Sir Orfeo that, if he had been pleased to learn of his death, he would have had him thrown out of his kingdom!

Raymond mourns the death of his lover, Agnes, so Theodore plots to disguise himself as a beggar and go to the convent to find out what happened to her.

Fletcher, on the other hand, finds out that the penny, a 1955 doubled-die cent he mockingly gave to a beggar earlier in the film was rare and worth thousands, resulting in Channel 62 making its goal.

One day an aged beggar, covered with ulcers and almost naked, stretched out his hand, and Martin took him to his own bed.

Unlike Riose, Belisarius was not executed but retired ( and, according to unsubstantiated legend was blinded and cast out as a beggar ).

A fight breaks out between Acharnians for and Acharnians against Dikaiopolis / Telephus / the beggar / Herodotus / Aristophanes and it only ends when the Athenian general Lamachus ( who also happens to live next door ) emerges from his house and imposes himself vaingloriously on the fray.

While Lina and Giulia head out shopping, Marcello is accosted by an old man who first mistakes him for a beggar, and then mistakes him for a homosexual or perhaps a prostitute, revisiting the humiliation of the incident with Lino on Marcello.

After several teachers don't work out Chan inlists the teachings of a beggar who is a kung fu master.

Disguised as a beggar, he lived near Edessa in Syria, accepting alms even from his own household slaves, who had been sent to look for him but did not recognize him, until a miraculous vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary singled him out as a " Man of God.

: Till I ' eard a beggar squealin ' out for quarter as ' e ran,

When the man starts assaulting Viridiana, Jorge tries to rescue her, but another beggar strikes him in the head with a bottle, knocking him out.

The Umayyad Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, a paranoid ruler, will have Abd el-Aziz assassinated and sends Musa ibn Nusayr into exile in his native Yemen village to live out his days as a beggar.

Cast out, Korihor became a beggar and was later trampled to death by a group who had separated themselves from the main Nephite society called the Zoramites.

A great battle ensued with a great many heroic deeds, some of them done by the pathetic beggar himself, until finally Sigurðr the dragon slayer throws him out through the door.