Ben Jonson: Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times, a commonplace book, London 1640, online
Robert Greene: Perimedes the Blacksmith. (PDF) Edward White, 1588, S. 37, abgerufen am 19. März 2020 (englisch, Edition mit moderner Schreibweise, copyright Nina Green Mai 2005): „…daring God out of heaven with that atheist Tamburlaine“
Della Hilton, Who Was Kit Marlowe?, Tamburlaine in London, Taplinger Publishing Company, S. 42, „[…] Shall pack-horses / And hollow pampered jades of Asia, / Which cannot go but thirty miles a dag […]?“