Then ſtrike vp Drum, and al the ſtarres that makeThe loathſome Circle of my dated life,Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart,That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods,And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene vi