 | William Shakespeare - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1886 - 148 pages
...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... | |
 | Laura Valentine - England - 1893 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Wit and humor - 1894 - 460 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1894 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 324 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 324 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1904 - 356 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 670 pages
...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... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 572 pages
...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... | |
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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;... 
