"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”
Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.
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The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859)
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 10 (King Math)

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
King Henry, Act III, scene i.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)

Pt. II, l. 313.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.”
The kingliest Kings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A king without instruction is like a donkey crowned.”
Il Re senza lettere era come un Asino coronato.
Della Prudenza et Dottrina del Re. p. 25.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 320.

Variant: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.”
Bk. III, ch. 7.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)