Tamburlaine the Great : who, from a Scythian shephearde, by his rare and woonderfull conquests, became a most puissant and mightye monarque : and (for his tyranny, and terrour in warre) was tearmed, the Scourge of God : devided into two tragicall discourses, as they were sundrie times shewed upon stages in the citie of London, by the Right Honorable the Lord Admyrall, his servantes. - Marlowe, Christopher (Printed by R. Jhones at the signe of the rose and crowne neere Holborne Bridge, 1590)