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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 Juliet , 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. 
