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" There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine... "
London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis ... - Page 419
by David Hughson - 1808
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Daniel Webster in England: Journal of Harriette Story Paige, 1839

Harriette Story Paige - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 410 pages
...of desperation, he hung himself upon this tree. " There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk...oak, with great ragged horns; And there he blasts a tree," &c. &c. &c. " Kenyon " has amused himself, by associating my name, with all these scenes,...
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Forestry: A Collection of 39 Articles Relating to Afforestation ...

Forests and forestry - 1919 - 716 pages
...Windsor has lost the old "Home's Oak," about which, as we read in " The Merry Wives of Windsor " — " There is an old tale goes that Herne the Hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns." It was blown down...
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Byways in Berkshire and the Cotswolds

Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Berkshire (England) - 1920 - 364 pages
...once stood, and we recall what Shakespeare tells in "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Mrs. Page says : There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter....still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood,...
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The Authors' Thames: A Literary Ramble Through the Thames Valley

Gordon S. Maxwell - Literary landmarks - 1924 - 350 pages
...in their wild rides. Shakespeare mentions this legend in The Merry Wives of Windsor when he says : " There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter, Sometime...still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns." Windsor Forest was the retreat of Sir Launcelot du Lake, the Arthurian hero, who retired...
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Nell Gwynne, 1650-1687: Her Life Story from St. Giles's to St. James's with ...

Arthur Irwin Dasent - Actors - 1924 - 360 pages
...cry, and ban-dogs howl, And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves. In Mistress Page's words: There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns. Though this tree of ill -repute was destroyed a century ago, many giants of the forest,...
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A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists

Edward Holdsworth Sugden - English drama - 1925 - 614 pages
...lightning-blasted skeleton of a tree." Swinburne was at Eton 1849-1853. In MWW iv. 4, 28, Mrs. Page says, " There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter, Sometime...winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an o., with great ragged horns " ; and Page adds : " Why, yet there want not many that do fear In deep...
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The Falstaff Plays of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1925 - 282 pages
...Devise but how you'll use him when he comes. And let us two devise to bring him thither. Mrs. Page. There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns , And there he blasts...
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Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, Volume 14

Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society - Forests and forestry - 1895 - 474 pages
...the Windsor trees, ' Herne's Oak," which Shakespeare in his Merry Wive* of Windsor thus refers to — "There is an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter,...still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kino yield blood,...
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Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, Volume 13

Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society - Forests and forestry - 1893 - 478 pages
...claiming the honour of being the tree immortalised by Shakespeare in the " Merry Wives of Windsor "— " There is an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter ;...Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts...
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Shakespeare and Shakespeareana: Selected from the Stock of Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros - Antiquarian booksellers - 1927 - 638 pages
...reference to Herne the Hunter, and on the title-page is the following quotation from Shakespeare : — " There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the Hunter,...time, at still midnight. Walk round about an oak." Shakespeare. 1094 SMITH (C. Roach). REMARKS ON SHAKSPEARE, His BirthPlace, etc. : Suggested by a visit...
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