...but how you'll use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring him hither. Mrs. Ford. (i.. ) There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the hunter,...still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragged horns ; And shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner. You've heard of sucli a spirit...

...footpath, seems to prove the identity of the tree, in addition to the traditions respecting it, — " There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragged horns, And there he blasts the tree." The last acorn from Herne's oak was WINDSOR PARK AND CASTLE...

...peen thrown in the rivers : and has peen grievously peaten, as an okl 'oman ; methinks there should pe terrors in him, that he should not come ; methinks...still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragged horns; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood,...

...Testament. 2 A Hebrew word, meaning a " host;" often confused with " sabbath." 3 See Note 1, p. 17. 4 " There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns," Merry Wives of Windsor, act. iv., sc.4. tion of the old poet was unintelligible, " I for one desire...

...Horne the hunter dyed, That Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, 30 Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great...shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner : 3 5 You have heard of such a spirit ; and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Received,...

...since Home the hunter dyed, That Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, 30 Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great...shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner: 3 5 You have heard of such a spirit; and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Received,...

...since Home the hunter dyed, That Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, 30 Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great...shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner: 35 You have heard of such a spirit ; and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Received,...

...the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, 30 Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;...yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful^manner. You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld...

...Mrs. Page, addressing the three gentlemen and speaking for Mrs. Ford as well as for herself, says : "There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,...there he blasts the tree and takes ' the cattle." Page, well knowing the old legend, asks : " Why, yet there want not many that do fear In deep of night...

...Mrs. Page, addressing the three gentlemen and speaking for Mrs. Ford as well as for herself, says : " There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter, Sometime...ragg'd horns, And there he blasts the tree and takes l the cattle." Page, well knowing the old legend, asks : " Why, yet there want not many that do fear...