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when thy king is a child. This famous sentence is from Ecclesiastes x. 6. Often quoted in Latin, Væ terris ubi rex est puer.
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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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