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a1475 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Longleat) in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 109 I..Hade gret tresour..Whiche might haue made me..With thilke stone to haue lyued like a kyng.

1598 tr. J. de Serres Hist. Coll. 98 Hee would liue like a king, command like a king, and be in the Louure like a king.

1625 Abp. J. Williams Great Britains Salomon 67 Our onely comfort is this, that as he liued like a King, so he died like a Saint.

1652 tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote (new ed.) iv. iii. f. 75 Thou shalt not want a Lordship wherein thou mayest live like a King.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies vii. 101 They would allow him such a Sum as would enable him to keep up his Grandeur, and live like a King.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ii. 22 Left that lord's house, where he might have lived like a king, and gone out into the wide world!

1820 Caledonian Mercury 16 Dec. The place altogether far exceeds my expectations, I shall by and bye be able to live like a King.

1882 D. C. Beard Amer. Boy's Handy Bk. xvi. 159 If you have any sort of luck with your rod, gun, or traps,..you can ‘live like a king’.

1937 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 113/3 (advt.) Travel and see the country—live like a king..for far less than staying at home.

1973 V. Teresa & T. C. Renner My Life in Mafia xxii. 254 Louie the Fox lived like a king, but he was tight as a crab's ass when it came to paying taxes.

2015 Times (Nexis) 22 Sept. 55 He lived like a king and..borrowed heavily to protect a luxurious lifestyle.