The king could not bear to choose one of his sons.

The king in Belverus would not have borne it!

But read the play more closely and you realize that the cheerfully successful king bears little resemblance to the man Shakespeare created.

This dead king to the living king I'll bear Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.

The quarrel over Edward's marriage could have been forgotten and the king would have borne no rancour.

This dead King to the living King I'll bear.

So much did Alexander do, in the performance of his service, that the King, the Queen, and the nobles bear him great affection.

Only one king bears the birth name Tao: Seqenenre.

How Kings and Queens bear it, sending innocent folk to die in their name, I do not know.

He then goes through a new coronation, after which the King is said to become the God-embodied and bears the title of Absolute.