I long to ſee thee backe returne from thence,That I may view theſe milk-white ſteeds of mine.All loden with the heads of killed men,And from their knees, euen to their hoofes below,Beſmer’d with blood, that makes a dainty ſhow.
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 I, scene i