But, in my mind, that were no policy: / The king will labour still to save his life, / The commons haply rise, to save his life; / And yet we have but trivial argument
The above quote (one of the earliest in which "trivial" is used to mean "unimportant") is from one of three plays William Shakespeare wrote about WHAT MONARCH, the King of England at the beginning of the War of the Roses?
HENRY VI