and the final and best version:
Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
Than have the white breasts of the queen of love.
(Doctor Faustus)
and compare the whole set with Spenser again (F. Q.):
Upon her eyelids many graces sate
Under the shadow of her even brows,
a passage which Mr. Robertson says Spenser himself used in three other places.
This economy is frequent in Marlowe. Within Tamburlaine it occurs in the form of monotony, especially in the facile use of resonant names (e.g. the recurrence of “Caspia” or “Caspian” with the same tone effect), a practice in which Marlowe was followed by Milton, but which Marlowe himself outgrew. Again,
Zenocrate, lovlier than the love of Jove,