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Zenelʹophon

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A corruption of Penelophon. The beggar-maid loved by King Copheʹtua.

“The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenelophon.”—Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, iv. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Zanēs
Zanoni
Zany
Zanny
Zel
Zelica
Zelotes
Zem
Zenchis Khan [great chief]
Zend-Avesta
Zenelophon
Zenith, Nadir
Zephon [searcher of secrets]
Zephyr
Zeus
Zeuxis
Zif
Zig
Zig
Zim and Jim
Zimri