Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave,
And there cut off thy most ungracious head;
Which I will bear in triumph to the king,
Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.”
Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 10.
BLACK AS A CROW.
Many similar instances might be brought forward. As in the case of the raven, we find the crow, as the emblem of blackness, contrasted with the white dove:—
“With the dove of Paphos might the crow
Vie feathers white.”
Pericles, Act iv. Introd.