"King Pest" by Edgar Allan Poe

A tale containing an allegory

The gods do bear and well allow in kings
The things which they abhor in rascal routes.
-Buckhurst's Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex. [II. 1.].

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For reference, King Richard III reigned from 1452 to 1485.