beggarmaid

Marmont -- came forth like the fairy prince to the beggarmaid with hands laden with riches, ready to lay these at the feet of the woman he loved.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Granted a woman had a motive to kill a man, that motive lay in the impulses of her feminine nature, and revenge, jealousy, fear, love or hate -- whatever the motive, it was of deep and over-powering and might find its root in equal likeliness in the breast of queen or beggarmaid.

Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902

I know something of it, for I belonged to it before you made a princess of me, as the king does the beggarmaid in the old story.

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860