194 EMBLEMS. 
Mahomed persuading the rude and simple Arabians that 
it was the Holy Ghost that gave him advice.* Hence 
Shakespeare’s query— 
“Was Mahomed inspired with a dove ?” 
Henry VI, Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. 
As the crow has been held the type of blackness, so has 
the dove been considered the emblem of the opposite 
colour:— 
“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, 
As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.” 
Romeo and Fuliet, Act i. Sc. 5. 
“ As soft as dove’s down, and as white as it.” 
Winter's Tale, Act iv. Sc. 4. 
In the very humorous Interlude which is introduced 
by the clowns in Midsummer Night’s Dream, we have the 
gentle voice of the dove contrasted with the mighty roar 
of the lion :— 
“ Bottom. Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that 
I will do any man’s heart good to hear me; I will roar, 
that I will make the Duke say, ‘Let him roar again, let 
him roar again.’ 
Quince. An you should do it too terribly, you would 
fright the Duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek ; 
and that were enough to hang us all. 
* Sir W. Raleigh, ‘‘ History of the World,” Book I. Part i. c. 6. 
