TAMBURLAINE: Then shall we fight courageously with them?
Or look you I should play the orator?

TECHELLES: No; cowards and faint-hearted runaways
Look for orations when the foe is near:
Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet

Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 2 (1586-1587)
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