The iewels and the treaſure we haue taneShall be reſeru’d, and you in better ſtate,Than if you were arriu’d in Siria,Euen in the circle of your Fathers armes,The mightie Souldan of Ægyptia.
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