← Table of contents
Folk-lore of Shakespeare

Note 487 — Chapter VIII

Reading edition

See “Winter’s Tale,” iv. 4:

“Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e’er was crow.”

Its transparency is alluded to in “Twelfth Night,” iii. 1:

“a cyprus, not a bosom, Hides my heart.”

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings