The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine Part 1


Act: 2 Scene: 5
A God is not so glorious as a King,
I thinke the pleasure they enjoy in heaven
Can not compare with kingly joyes in earth.
To weare a Crowne enchac'd with pearle and golde,
Whose vertues carte with it life and death.
To aske, and have: commaund, and be obeied.
When looks breed love, with lookes to gaine the prize.
Such power attractive shines in princes eies.
Nay, though I praise it, I can live without it.
I know they would with our perswasions.
A jest to chardge on twenty thousand men?
I judge the purchase more important far.
Goe on for me.