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Marlowe
◊1—a thousand deaths at every glance
◊1—crazed buildings … papal towers
◊1—that darted mountains at
◊1—the fatal poison works within my …

Shakespeare
◊2—black bosom
◊2—closure of my breast
◊2—prophetic soul

Sandys
◊3—sumptuously re-edified
◊3—unsullied lily
◊3—how infinite
◊3—as infinite as
◊3—terrible aspect
◊3—jaws of hell
◊3—melodious harp
◊3—panting breast
◊3—unpeopled deserts
◊3—the sun’s uprise

Marlowe-Shakespeare
◊4—the moon sleeps with Endymion
◊4—Yet Caesar shall go forth
◊4—pampered jades of Asia
◊4—distressed plight
◊4—brinish tears

Marlowe-Sandys
◊5—Holla, ye [human-horse combination]
◊5—infinite riches
◊5—triple world
◊5—starry firmament
◊5—night-wandering star
◊5—Phoebe … horns unite
◊5—flaring beams … night
◊5—celestial fire
◊5—burning beams
◊5—down from the enameled sky
◊5—kindle exhalations
◊5—caper in the air
◊5—thickened air
◊5—winding shores
◊5—flowery banks of Nile
◊5—swelling clouds
◊5—black tempest
◊5—pitchy clouds
◊5—earthly dregs
◊5—entrails of the earth
◊5—craggy rocks
◊5—crooked dolphin
◊5—thirsty sands
◊5—antarctic pole
◊5—fruitful field
◊5—wandering fowl
◊5—Ay me, O …
◊5—melodious harp
◊5—divine lustration
◊5—endless honour
◊5—sweet error
◊5—base infamies
◊5—sleeping vengeance
◊5—flagitious … sin
◊5—wrathful looks
◊5—fearful shrieks
◊5—spread one's sable wings
◊5—jaws of hell
◊5—a thousand furies
◊5—black rust
◊5—quenchless flames
◊5—massy chains
◊5—chariot … yoked dragons
◊5—conquering wings
◊5—with their ensigns spread
◊5—doubtful battle
◊5—stern war
◊5—warlike engine
◊5—so foul a crime
◊5—redoubled strength
◊5—where all is whist and still
◊5—begirt one round
◊5—cold benumbs one’s limbs
◊5—chill cold … blood
◊5—fatal poison
◊5—fatal night
◊5—dangling tresses
◊5—panting breast
◊5—heavenly virgin
◊5—my captive heart
◊5—one’s spirit … liquid air
◊5—fainting breath
◊5—fainting soul
◊5—pensive soul
◊5—my yielding soul
◊5—my laboring soul
◊5—my vexed soul
◊5—contemner
◊5—unframe

Shakespeare-Sandys
◊6—thou ravisher
◊6—O thou eternal
◊6—both infinite
◊6—how infinite
◊6—as infinite as
◊6—so infinite
◊6—all the world’s a stage
◊6—lofty pitch
◊6—swart night … stars
◊6—sparkling stars
◊6—night’s black mantle
◊6—concealing night
◊6—aged night
◊6—glimpses of the moon
◊6—three winters … three summers
◊6—foggy cloud
◊6—dusky sky
◊6—empty sky
◊6—the sun’s uprise
◊6—heaven’s burning eye
◊6—orbed ground
◊6—high-wrought flood
◊6—labouring bark
◊6—foaming brine
◊6—inconstant billows
◊6—dark womb
◊6—blind cave
◊6—senseless stone
◊6—fatal mouth
◊6—fatal brand
◊6—fatal end
◊6—sedgy bank
◊6—yielding water
◊6—death’s veil
◊6—barbarous people
◊6—sumptuously re-edified
◊6—wavering multitude
◊6—terrible aspect
◊6—cloudy brow
◊6—stern brow
◊6—stern alarms
◊6—secret art
◊6—inveterate hate
◊6—cursed steel
◊6—civil blows
◊6—redoubled blows
◊6—breathless corpse
◊6—lay bathed in blood
◊6—winged vengeance
◊6—winged heels
◊6—winged haste
◊6—winged speed
◊6—umpire of this strife
◊6—wind of words
◊6—false traitor
◊6—fruitful peace
◊6—smiling peace
◊6—sweet peace
◊6—doubtful joy
◊6—happy the parents
◊6—thrice blessed they
◊6—play the wanton with
◊6—fair vestal
◊6—rich caparisons
◊6—with a constant eye
◊6—as the unsullied lily
◊6—black bosom
◊6—melting bosom
◊6—thaws into a dew
◊6—servile breath
◊6—so foul a deed
◊6—Die, die …
◊6—horrid act
◊6—bands … hands
◊6—porches of one’s ears
◊6—salt tears
◊6—nimble haste
◊6—nimble wings
◊6—swallowing grave
◊6—studious care
◊6—idle scorn
◊6—bitter grief
◊6—strong necessities
◊6—ancient courage
◊6—within the closure of my breast
◊6—gentle looks
◊6—sweet repose
◊6—sweet poison
◊6—my guiltless blood
◊6—stubborn soul
◊6—doubtful soul
◊6—ravished soul
◊6—distracted soul
◊6—blind soul
◊6—upright soul
◊6—parting soul
◊6—protectress
◊6—admonishments
◊6—tainture
◊6—flexure
◊6—dismask
◊6—disunite
◊6—disannul
◊6—calumniate
◊6—prejudicate
◊6—depopulate
◊6—beachy
◊6—sappy
◊6—unbattered
◊6—spleenful

Marlowe-Shakespeare-Sandys
◊7—adieu
◊7—O mischief
◊7—[plural] infinite
◊7—undiscovered country
◊7—O my child … my … my … my …
◊7—endless night
◊7—eternal night
◊7—horned moon
◊7—airy region
◊7—mild aspect
◊7—silver waves
◊7—orient pearl
◊7—lofty towers
◊7—lofty cedar
◊7—within the closure of
◊7—walls immured
◊7—cursed fate
◊7—with deadly hate
◊7—wretched state
◊7—poor wretch
◊7—foul disgrace
◊7—cold death
◊7—impious war
◊7—usurps the …
◊7—dreadful things
◊7—base slaves
◊7—dash the brains
◊7—laugh to scorn
◊7—fair … wondrous fair
◊7—blushing rose
◊7—sweet boy
◊7—a lovely boy
◊7—lips … flying soul
◊7—one’s soul fleets
◊7—wretched soul
◊7—guiltless soul
◊7—troubled soul
◊7—joyful soul
◊7—exequies
◊7—ostents
◊7—coverture
◊7—embracements
◊7—tediousness
◊7—arbitrement
◊7—thraldom
◊7—undeck
◊7—re-edify
◊7—affy
◊7—ruinate
◊7—upheave
◊7—recure
◊7—disjoin
◊7—rivelled
◊7—wrackful
◊7—odoriferous
◊7—unpeopled
◊7—brinish
◊7—sportful
◊7—ruthful
◊7—intestine

Spenser's Influence
◊8—lofty pitch
◊8—eternal night
◊8—horned moon
◊8—mild aspect
◊8—orient pearl
◊8—lofty towers
◊8—dreadful things

Miscellanea
◊9.1—“infinite” in Marlowe, Shakespeare, Sandys
◊9.2—Parallelisms: Toward a General Theory
◊9.3—Parallelisms: Select Latin Sources
◊9.4—Marlowe’s Biblical Poetry from 1593-1595