Twelfth Night, Act v. Sc. 1.
“Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven!
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Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 2.
The quarto (1599) and folio here read, “ravenous, dove-feather’d raven,” &c.
As colour is intensified by contrast, so we read—
“Whiter than snow upon a raven’s back.”
So the undated quarto. Other editions have the emendation—