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lime that they have no blact feathers by benefite of age." (Lib. xii. 

 c. 10). 



In the ' Merry Wives of Windsor,' however, we are told that 



" Young ravens must have food." 



Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. Scene 3. 



" As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd 

 With raven's feather from unwholesome fen 

 Drop on ye both." 



Tempest, Act i. Scene 2. 



. Wicked, in the sense of baneful, hurlful, is often met with in old 

 medical works applied to sores and wounds. " A wykked felone," i.e. 

 a bad sore, is mentioned in a Tract on Hawking, MS. Harl. 2340. 



" Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, dove-feather'd raven. 

 Just opposite to what thou justly seeinest." 



Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Scene 2. 



The Quarto, 1599, and Folio, read "ravenous dove-feather'd raven," &c. 



" Whiter than snow on a ravens back." 



Id. 

 So the undated Quarto ; the other editions read, 



" Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back." 



" Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning 

 May bare the raven's eye." 



Cymheline, Act ii. Scene 2. 



" Who will not chanfje a raven for a dove ? " 



Midsummer Night's Dream, Act ii. Scene 3. 



" I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love. 

 To spite a raven's heart within a dove." 



Twelfth Nir/ht, Act v. Scene 1. 



" All amber-colour'd raven was well noted." 



Love's Labour Lost, Act iv. Scene 3. 



" Some powerful Spirit instruct the kites and raivns 



To be thy nurses." 



Winter's Tale, Act ii. Scene 3. 



* * " Sometimes he angers me 

 With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, 

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A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven." 



Henri/ IV., Part I., Act iii. Scene I. 



