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Parallelisms: Marlowe

◊1—Repetitive Expressions:

a thousand deaths at every glance
Marlowe, HL, 1.382 (1885, 3:19; 1966, 4:47)
“Threat’ning a thousand deaths at every glance,”

Marlowe, D, 2.1.231 (1885, 2:325; 1966, 1:159)
“Threatening a thousand deaths at every glance.”

crazed buildings … papal towers
Marlowe, E2, 1.4.100-101 (1885, 2:136; 1966, 6:91)
“I’ll fire thy crazed buildings, and enforce
The papal towers to kiss the lowly ground.”

Marlowe, MP, 21.64-65 (1885, 2:296; 1966, 3:250)
“I’ll fire his crazed buildings, and enforce
The papal towers to kiss the lowly earth.”

that darted mountains at
Marlowe, 1T, 5.2.449 (1885, 1:104; 1966, 2:177)
“That darted mountains at her brother Jove,”

Marlowe, 2T, 4.1.128 (1885, 1:171; 1966, 2:247)
“Than he that darted mountains at thy head,”

the fatal poison works within my … ◊5
Marlowe, MP, 3.19-20 (1885, 2:247; 1966, 3:191)
“the fatal poison / Works within my head;”

Marlowe, MP, 21.84 (1885, 2:297; 1966, 3:251)
“O, the fatal poison works within my breast!”