Again—
“Lawn as white as driven snow;
Cyprus black as e’er was crow.”
Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Sc. 3.
Here we have not only the crow contrasted with snow, but also cyprus, a thin transparent black stuff, somewhat like crape, placed in contradistinction with lawn, which is a white material, like muslin.[65]
“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Sc. 5.
“Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”