“I am the black crow king,
Keeper of the forgotten corn,
The King!”
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King
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Arthur C. Clarke book The Fountains of Paradise
Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
Source: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65
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“I am king of the Romans and above grammar.”
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437) Monarch from the House Luxemburg, 1387 to 1437 King of Hungary, 1410 to 1437 King of Germany, 1419 to 1437…
Original Latin: Ego sum rex Romanus et super grammaticam Carlyle, Thomas (1858). History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (Volume II) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/02frd10.txt. Gutenberg.org.
“On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the King.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
“Like Enki, king of the abzu, I am successful in finding solutions, and am wise in words.”
In Debate between Bird and Fish, early 2nd millennium BCE. Text online http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr535.htm at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.