“Let Earth and Heaven his timeless death deplore,
For both their worths shall equal him no more.”

— Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine

Amyras, Part 2, Act V, scene iii, lines 252–253
Tamburlaine (c. 1588)

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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

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