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" 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 the cattle8;... "
The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ... - Page 43
by William Shakespeare - 1851
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The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 386 pages
...flesh is punished, he shall have no desires. Page. So think I too. Mrs. Ford. Devise but how you '11 use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring...ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes 1 the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful...
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...Devise but how you '11 use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring him thither. Mrs. Paye. There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...blasts the tree, and takes the cattle ; And makes milch-kind yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner : You have heard of...
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Letters Aesthetic, Social, and Moral, Written from Europe, Egypt, and Palestine

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Europe - 1857 - 606 pages
...identical oak to which Shakspeare has alluded in a striking passage in the Merry Wives of Windsor. " 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, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood,...
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Lectures and essays on various subjects, historical, topographical, and artistic

William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pages
...Merry Wives, is the oak which Mr. Jesse maintains* to be the real " Herne's Oak" — the tree of which An old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime...Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns. The tree is now dead, and stretches forth its spectral arms like those of a giant. From its aspect,...
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Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius ..., Part 155, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1859 - 722 pages
...zu wuit in den Betheuerungen Eurer Ergebenheit, wie Ihr voiher zu Mrs. Ford. Devise but how you '11 use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring...with great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree , 3 and takes + the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous...
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Choice thoughts from Shakspere, by the author of 'The book of familiar ...

William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...sealed bags ; And 'tis the very riches of thyself That now I aim at. ACT IV. Legend of Herne the Hunter. 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, and takes* the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 560 pages
...rivers ; and has beer, grievously Beaten, as an old 'oman : methinks, there should be terrors in nim that he should not come : methinks, his flesh is punished,...still midnight. Walk round about an oak, with great ragsf d horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes* the cattle; And makes milch-kine yield blood,...
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Windsor: A History and Description of the Castle and the Town

John Stoughton - Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead, England) - 1862 - 268 pages
...through Datchet-lane, and entering the park by the Thames, let us cross it, and look for H erne's oak. " There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...great ragg'd horns; And there he blasts the tree." Many an oak, as fine and finer than Herne's, has been cut down and never thought of; or stands, the...
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The dramatic works of William Shakespeare, with copious glossarial notes and ...

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 1056 pages
...methinks, there should be terrors in him, that ho should not come. Mrs Ford. Devise but how you 'I1 use him when he comes, And let us two devise to bring...ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes 1 the cattle ; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful...
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Shakespere's garden; or, The plants and flowers named in his works described ...

Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pages
...Bilberries (Vaccinium Myrtillus). In Act iv. Scene 4, Mrs. Page, speaking to Mrs. Ford, says : — There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter,...And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle. This oak was known in Windsor forest by the name of Herne's oak, until it was cut down by the direction...
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