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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