TAMBURLAINE: Your births shall be no blemish to your fame;
For virtue is the fount whence honour springs,
And they are worthy she investeth kings.

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

Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act 4, sc. 4 (1586-1587)
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