◊5—Similar expressions:
Holla, ye [human-horse combination] ◊4
Marlowe, 2T, 4.3.1 (1885, 1:178; 1966, 2:254)
“Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia!”
Sandys, MET, 9 (1970, 404, -16v)
“Holla, thou halfe a beast;”
Note: The “Holla” of Marlowe addresses two captive kings who are yoked to a chariot; the kings are pulling the chariot like horses. The “Holla” of Sandys addresses a centaur, a mythical half-human, half-horse creature.
infinite riches ◊9.1
Marlowe, JM, 1.1.36-37 (1885, 2:12; 1966, 3:38)
“so inclose / Infinite riches in a little room.”
Sandys, MET, 6 (1970, 270, -5v)
“behold in every place / Infinite riches!”
triple world
Marlowe, 2T, 4.3.63 (1885, 1:181; 1966, 2:257)
“Before I conquer all the triple world.”
Sandys, MET, 15 (1970, 690, -6v)
“Jove rules the arched skie, / And triple world;”
starry firmament
Marlowe, 2T, 2.4.106 (1885, 1:141; 1966, 2:216)
“And shiver all the starry firmament,”
Sandys, PSM, 108.7-8 (1872, 2:258)
“extends / Above the starry firmament,”
night-wandering star
Marlowe, HL, 1.107 (1885, 3:9; 1966, 4:33)
“Nor that night-wandering, pale, and watery star”
Sandys, CP, 4.358 (1872, 2:478)
“Night-wand’ring stars with fainting splendour fly,”
Phoebe … horns unite
Marlowe, L, 535-536 (1885, 3:274; 1966, 4:287-288)
“Phoebe, having fill’d / Her meeting horns”
Sandys, CP, 1.188 (1872, 2:422)
“When Phoebe shall her horns unite.”
flaring beams … night
Marlowe, HL, 2.332 (1885, 3:37; 1966, 4:66)
“And with his flaring beams mocked ugly Night,”
Sandys, AEN, 1 (1632, 548, -19v)
“Which sullen night subdew with flaring beames.”
celestial fire
Marlowe, L, 75-76 (1885, 3:256; 1966, 4:266)
“celestial fire / Fleet on the floods,”
Sandys, CP, 2.287 (1872, 2:444)
“Oft flaming with celestial fire?”
burning beams
Marlowe, D, 5.1.12 (1885, 2:363; 1966, 1:215)
“Wherewith his burning beams”
Sandys, MET, 6 (1970, 274-275, -1v)
“fir’d / By burning beames”
down from the enameled sky
Marlowe, HL, 1.249-250 (1885, 3:14; 1966, 4:41)
“down from th’ enamell’d sky / All heaven would come”
Sandys, MET, 1 (1970, 42, -17v)
“Downe from the enamel’d skie / Shee slides to Earth.”
kindle exhalations
Marlowe, 2T, 3.2.3 (1885, 1:146; 1966, 2:222)
“And kindle heaps of exhalations,”
Sandys, JOB, 15.44 (1872, 1:29)
“Like newly-kindled exhalations,”
caper in the air
Marlowe, 2T, 3.2.61 (1885, 1:148; 1966, 2:225)
“And make whole cities caper in the air.”
Sandys, MET, 4 (1970, 192, +5v)
“Now capers in the ayre,”
thickened air
Marlowe, L, 645-646 (1885, 3:278; 1966, 4:293)
“shall the thicken’d air / Become intemperate?”
Sandys, JOB, 24.20 (1872, 1:44)
“thicken’d air from her black bosom pours;”
winding shores
Marlowe, L, 422 (1885, 3:269; 1966, 4:282)
“Where Tarbel’s winding shores embrace the sea;”
Sandys, MET, 11 (1970, 507, +14v)
“To winding shores we drave the wearie Heard,”
flowery banks of Nile
Marlowe, 1T, 4.1.9 (1885, 1:67; 1966, 2:137)
“Lie slumbering on the flowery banks of Nile,”
Sandys, CP, 5.213 (1872, 2:497)
“Couch’d on the flow’ry banks of Nile:”
swelling clouds
Marlowe, 2T, 1.6.33 (1885, 1:127; 1966, 2:200)
“When Boreas rents a thousand swelling clouds;”
Sandys, CP, 4.365 (1872, 2:479)
“No pitchy storm, wrapt up in swelling clouds,”
black tempest
Marlowe, D, 4.1.5 (1885, 2:348; 1966, 1:191)
“And dive into black tempest’s treasury,”
Sandys, PSM, 107.3.5 (1872, 2:257)
“At His command black tempests rise;”
pitchy clouds
Marlowe, 1T, 5.2.232 (1885, 1:96; 1966, 2:169)
“Engirt with tempests wrapt in pitchy clouds,”
Sandys, MET, 1 (1970, 33, +3v)
“who shrouds / His terrible aspect in pitchie clouds.”
earthly dregs
Marlowe, 2T, 3.2.8 (1885, 1:146; 1966, 2:222)
“Fed with the fresh supply of earthly dregs,”
Sandys, MET, 1 (1970, 27, +12v)
“Which, void of earthly dregs, did highest rise.”
entrails of the earth
Marlowe, DF, 1.1.148 (1885, 1:220; 1966, 5:65)
“Within the massy entrails of the earth:”
Sandys, JOB, 3.54 (1872, 1:8)
“Which the dark entrails of the earth unfold;”
craggy rocks
Marlowe, 1T, 2.3.48 (1885, 1:36; 1966, 2:102)
“And all the craggy rocks of Caspea.”
Sandys, JOB, 39.7-8 (1872, 1:70)
“do teem among / The craggy rocks?”
crooked dolphin
Marlowe, HL, 2.234 (1885, 3:33; 1966, 4:61)
“Or crooked dolphin when the sailor sings;”
Sandys, PSM, 104.3.9 (1872, 2:247)
“About whose sides the crooked dolphin plays,”
thirsty sands
Marlowe, L, 369 (1885, 3:267; 1966, 4:279)
“or hot Libya’s thirsty sands.”
Sandys, MET, 15 (1970, 674, +23v)
“suckt drie by thirstie sand;”
antarctic pole
Marlowe, 1T, 4.4.139 (1885, 1:83; 1966, 2:155)
“We mean to travel to th’ antarctic pole,”
Sandys, JOB, 9.22 (1872, 1:18)
“Their radiant flames about th’ antarctic pole.”
fruitful field
Marlowe, L, 137 (1885, 3:258; 1966, 4:269)
“Like to a tall oak in a fruitful field,”
Sandys, PSM, 105.2.14 (1872, 2:249)
“And sojourn’d in the fruitful fields”
wandering fowl
Marlowe, L, 587 (1885, 3:276; 1966, 4:290)
“The hearts of beasts, and flight of wand’ring fowls.”
Sandys, MET, 3 (1970, 138, +9v)
“nor salvage Beast, / Nor wandring Fowle,”
Ay me, O …
Marlowe, L, 13 (1885, 3:253; 1966, 4:263)
“Ay me, O what a world of land and sea”
Sandys, MET, 8 (1970, 367, -17v)
“Ay me! ô whether am I rapt!”
melodious harp ◊3
Marlowe, DF, 2.2.29 (1885, 1:241; 1966, 5:90)
“With ravishing sound of his melodious harp,”
Sandys, JOB, 21.21 (1872, 1:38)
“Strike the melodious harp,”
divine lustration
Marlowe, L, 593 (1885, 3:276; 1966, 4:290)
“That with divine lustration purg’d the walls,”
Sandys, JOB, 1.32 (1872, 1:2)
“Then with divine lustrations sanctifies.”
endless honour
Marlowe, 1T, 5.2.434-435 (1885, 1:104; 1966, 2:176)
“protestations / Of endless honour”
Sandys, PSM, 112.6 (1872, 2:263)
“His truth with endless honour crown’d.”
sweet error
Marlowe, L, 456 (1885, 3:271; 1966, 4:284)
“Are blest by such sweet error;”
Sandys, MET, 4 (1970, 181, +17v)
“shoot flames through this sweet error;”
base infamies
Marlowe, 2T, 3.1.20 (1885, 1:144; 1966, 2:220)
“Out of the book of base born infamies.”
Sandys, PSM, 15.7 (1872, 1:106)
“Fosters not base infamies,”
sleeping vengeance
Marlowe, DF, 3.1.101 (1885, 1:289; 1966, 5:108)
“So shall our sleeping vengeance now arise,”
Sandys, PSM, 7.1.21-22 (1872, 1:97)
“Thy sleeping wrath awake, / And vengeance take;”
flagitious … sin
Marlowe, DF, 5.1.59 (1885, 1:273; 1966, 5:161)
“With such flagitious crimes of heinous sins”
Sandys, JOB, 31.59 (1872, 1:56)
“The sin had been flagitious,”
wrathful looks
Marlowe, 2T, 3.5.119 (1885, 1:163; 1966, 2:239)
“Seest thou not death within my wrathful looks?”
Sandys, PSM, 2.26 (1872, 1:92)
“Lest He His wrathful looks display,”
fearful shrieks
Marlowe, DF, 5.3.4 (1885, 1:324; 1966, 5:174)
“Such fearful shrieks and cries were never heard:”
Sandys, PSM, 44.2.18 (1872, 2:303)
“Nor fearful shrieks disturb our rest.”
spread one's sable wings
Marlowe, 2T, 3.4.16 (1885, 1:156; 1966, 2:232)
“Now, ugly death, stretch out thy sable wings,”
Sandys, JOB, 4.23 (1872, 1:9)
“Now when the night her sable wings had spread,”
jaws of hell ◊3
Marlowe, DF, 5.2.119 (1885, 1:323; 1966, 5:170)
“The jaws of hell are open to receive thee.”
Sandys, CP, 4.190 (1872, 2:473)
“And to the jaws of hell thy guilt extend?”
a thousand furies
Marlowe, DF, 4.1.27 (1885, 1:300; 1966, 5:125)
“And at his heels a thousand furies wait,”
Sandys, CP, 5.146 (1872, 2:494)
“And show’rs of stones by a thousand furies flung.”
black rust
Marlowe, L, 245 (1885, 3:262; 1966, 4:274)
“With ugly teeth of black rust foully scarr’d:”
Sandys, MET, 15 (1970, 688, +17v)
“Black rust obscures dimme Lucifers aspect:”
quenchless flames
Marlowe, 2T, 2.3.24 (1885, 1:136; 1966, 2:211)
“The devils there, in chains of quenchless flame”
Sandys, PSM, 140.20 (1872, 2:297) ∞
“And quenchless flames embrace them round.”
massy chains
Marlowe, 1T, 1.2.125-126 (1885, 1:21; 1966, 2:83)
“and about their necks / Hangs massy chains”
Sandys, JER, 3.14 (1872, 2:365)
“And clogs my galléd legs with massy chains.”
chariot … yoked dragons
Marlowe, DF, 3.Pro.5-6 (1885, 1:249; 1966, 5:102)
“Where sitting in a Chariot burning bright,
Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons’ necks,”
Sandys, MET, 8 (1970, 375, -13v)
“My charriot and my yoked dragons take.”
conquering wings
Marlowe, 2T, 4.1.6 (1885, 1:166; 1966, 2:242)
“And cuts down armies with his conquering wings.”
Sandys, MET, 15 (1970, 691, -4v)
“the Roman Eagles spread / Their conquering wings,”
with their ensigns spread
Marlowe, 2T, 3.1.47 (1885, 1:145; 1966, 2:221)
“That on mount Sinai, with their ensigns spread,”
Sandys, SOL, 6.15 (1872, 2:350)
“Nor armies with their ensigns spread,”
doubtful battle
Marlowe, 1T, 5.2.89 (1885, 1:90; 1966, 2:162)
“A doubtful battle with my tempted thoughts”
Sandys, PSM, 144.1.3 (1872, 2:302)
“In doubtful battle giv’n me might,”
stern war
Marlowe, ELG, 1.1.32 (1885, 3:106; 1966, 4:144)
“Farewell stern war,”
Sandys, AEN, 1 (1632, 538, -6v)
“Sterne warres he shall in Latium wage,”
warlike engine
Marlowe, 1T, 4.1.29 (1885, 1:68; 1966, 2:138)
“Their warlike engines and munition”
Sandys, MET, 14 (1970, 625, +21v)
“Like quarries by a warlike engine slung.”
so foul a crime
Marlowe, E2, 5.1.99 (1885, 2:209; 1966, 6:181)
“Shall not be guilty of so foul a crime.”
Sandys, MET, 10 (1970, 462, +13v)
“If nature could permit so foule a Crime:”
redoubled strength
Marlowe, HL, 2.67 (1885, 3:27; 1966, 4:55)
“Striv’d with redoubled strength;”
Sandys, MET, 5 (1970, 226, +21v)
“At Perseus hurles, with rage-redoubled strength.”
where all is whist and still
Marlowe, HL, 1.346 (1885, 3:18; 1966, 4:46)
“Far from the town (where all is whist and still,”
Sandys, MET, 1 (1970, 32, +1v)
“In dead of Night, when all was whist and still,”
begirt one round
Marlowe, E2, 2.2.221 (1885, 2:163; 1966, 6:125)
“What care I though the earls begirt us round?”
Sandys, JOB, 22.17 (1872, 1:40)
“For this, unthought of snares begirt thee round,”
cold benumbs one’s limbs
Marlowe, L, 248 (1885, 3:262; 1966, 4:274)
“and cold benumb’d their limbs,”
Sandys, MET, 2 (1970, 96, -19v)
“And stifning cold benums her senselesse lims.”
chill cold … blood
Marlowe, D, 2.1.260 (1885, 2:326; 1966, 1:161)
“And dipped it in the old king’s chill-cold blood,”
Sandys, MET, 7 (1970, 309, -4v)
“a chill cold checkes her blood;”
fatal poison ◊1
Marlowe, MP, 21.84 (1885, 2:297; 1966, 3:251)
“O, the fatal poison works within my breast!”
Sandys, PSM, 64.26 (1872, 1:180)
“Shall with that fatal poison die.”
fatal night
Marlowe, MP, 2.7 (1885, 2:242; 1966, 3:184)
“This day, this hour, this fatal night,”
Sandys, JOB, 3.4-5 (1872, 1:7)
“and the fatal night / Of my conception!”
Note: The above phrase—“fatal night of my conception”—by Sandys about Job, the wealthy Jew who loses his wealth in the Old Testament, echoes the phrase below by Marlowe about Barabas, the wealthy Jew who loses his wealth in Marlowe’s play The Jew of Malta:
Marlowe, JM, 1.2.193 (1885, 2:26; 1966, 3:58)
“Thy fatal birthday, forlorn Barabas;”
dangling tresses
Marlowe, HL, 1.55 (1885, 3:7; 1966, 4:31)
“His dangling tresses that were never shorn,”
Sandys, MET, 4 (1970, 171, -7v)
“And dangling Tresses with wilde Ivy crown’d,”
panting breast ◊3
Marlowe, E2, 4.6.66 (1885, 2:202; 1966, 6:173)
“rip up this panting breast of mine,”
Sandys, PSM, 109.3.4 (1872, 2:261)
“My wounded heart bleeds in my panting breast.”
heavenly virgin
Marlowe, 1T, 5.2.263 (1885, 1:97; 1966, 2:171)
“Of heavenly virgins and unspotted maids,”
Sandys, MET, 5 (1970, 233, +14v)
“O heavenly Virgin,”
my captive heart
Marlowe, ELG, 1.2.8 (1885, 3:107; 1966, 4:145)
“’Tis cruel Love turmoils my captive heart.”
Sandys, MET, 14 (1970, 630, -12v)
“my captive heart / An Other holds;”
one’s spirit … liquid air
Marlowe, 1T, 5.2.237 (1885, 1:96; 1966, 2:169)
“And my pin’d soul, resolv’d in liquid air,”
Sandys, MET, 8 (1970, 368, -19v)
“To liquid aire his vanisht spirits turne:”
fainting breath
Marlowe, D, 5.1.53 (1885, 2:369; 1966, 1:222)
“thou spend’st thy fainting breath:”
Sandys, PSM, 88.1.5 (1872, 2:220)
“Lest sorrow stop my fainting breath,”
fainting soul
Marlowe, 2T, 4.1.111 (1885, 1:170; 1966, 2:246)
“Here, Jove, receive his fainting soul again;”
Sandys, CP, 4.16-17 (1872, 2:468)
“death had now releas’d / His fainting soul;”
pensive soul
Marlowe, 2T, 4.2.27 (1885, 1:175; 1966, 2:251)
“A fitter subject for a pensive soul.”
Sandys, PSM, 89.5.20 (1872, 2:225)
“O my pensive soul,”
my yielding soul
Marlowe, 1T, 1.2.223 (1885, 1:25; 1966, 2:88)
“What strong enchantments tice my yielding soul?”
Sandys, JOB, 7.37 (1872, 1:15)
“So that my yielding soul, subdu’d with grief,”
my laboring soul
Marlowe, JM, 1.2.325 (1885, 2:31; 1966, 3:66)
“To make atonement for my labouring soul.”
Sandys, PSM, 94.2.22 (1872, 2:233)
“When grief my lab’ring soul confounds,”
my vexed soul
Marlowe, 1T, 1.1.114 (1885, 1:13; 1966, 2:74)
“The very substance of my vexed soul!”
Sandys, MET, 2 (1970, 82, +11v)
“And apprehend my vexed Soules unrest!”
◊5—Similar Rare Nouns:
contemner
Marlowe, 2T, 4.3.40 (1885, 1:180; 1966, 2:256)
“This proud contemner of thy dreadful power,”
Sandys, MET, 9 (1970, 407, -3v)
“And their Contemners patient limmes invade.”
◊5—Similar Rare Verbs:
unframe
Marlowe, ELG, 3.8.30 (1885, 3:198; 1966, 4:243)
“And that slow web night’s falsehood did unframe.”
Sandys, MET, 1 (1970, 25, -8v)
“The Sea, the Earth, all-covering Heaven unfram’d,”
Parallelisms: Marlowe-Sandys