 | William Gilpin - 1834
...not forget Hern's Oak in Windsor Forest. Shakespeare tells us, — • an old tale goes, that Hern the hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter time, at still of midnight, Walk round about this oak, with ragged horns ; And then he blasts... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - 1834
...Shakspeare's " Merry Wives of Windsor: " " There a 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839
...has the care of parks, or beasb. of chace. There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the Winter-time,...midnight, Walk round about an oak with ragged horns. Sliaktpeute. The first fat buck of all the season's sent, And keeper takes no fee in compliment. Druden.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839
...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 the tree, and takes... | |
 | England - 1840
...lately tradition pointed out a withered tree as the identical oak of " Herne the hunter." "There ii an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the winter time, at itill midnight, Walk round about the oak with great ragirM hornt." In the ' Pictorial... | |
 | John Frederick Wood - 1862
...recently put up a board on Mr. Jesse's favourite tree in the avenue, bearing this inscription : — ' There is an old tale goes that Herne the Hunter, Some...time a keeper here in Windsor Forest, Doth all the wintcr-tinie, bt/ull midnight, Walk round about this oak.'* " The subject has been recently investigated... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - 1847 - 260 páginas
...among the peasantry, into one of his happiest dramatic incidents: " There is an old tale goes lhat Herne, the Hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winler lime, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great rugged horna ; And there he blasts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851
...devise to bring him thither. MBS. 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 the tree, and takes"... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1853 - 243 páginas
...quickened ear of imagination : — " About, about ! Search Windsor castle, elves, within, without." ****** "There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,...time a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragged horns, And then he blasts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 418 páginas
...many ancestors. Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world, In me to lose. AW iv. 2. IIEllNE'S OAK. There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the hunter, Some time a keeper here in AVindsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, HERNE'S OAK, — continued. Walk round... | |
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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... 
