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τη ωραια πυλη του ιερου (tē hōraia pylē tou hierou, the Beautiful Gate of the temple) [2] According to the Acts narrative, there was a habitual beggar there with a congenital disability, who sought alms as people entered and left the temple.
The temple in Jerusalem had several gates, but it is not clear which one might have been called Beautiful. No ancient source mentions the Beautiful Gate, but the Nicanor Gate is probably the best guess. Traditionally the gate is identified with the Shushan Gate but, according to C. K. Barrett, that gate was not a suitable location for a beggar. [6]
In the story, the main character Bessee is the most beautiful woman in her town. But she was few marital prospects due to her father's status as a beggar. She eventually gains four suitors, but only the knight among them is willing to marry an impoverished girl. The beggar father turns out to a blinded war veteran with
The old man asks the boy to find three bars of white, yellow, and red gold. Yet, whenever he finds a bar of gold, he gives it to a beggar asking for money, choosing to suffer the old man's cruel punishments. By the third time he helps the beggar, he is rewarded and honored by the entire city.
"Robin Hood and the Beggar" is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is a pair out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads.
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The beggar sings of his food, his drinks, and his dog. He sings of going to Pimlico with his fellow beggars, where they will all have drinks with girls. He brags of his skills as a beggar, and his ability to evoke pity in others. He lives in a hollowed out tree, and wonders why anybody would be a king when a beggar's life is so good.
"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage immediately".