 | Lurana Donnels O'Malley - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 260 pages
...Mistress Page develops a vivid and frightening tale of Herne the hunter, who 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. (IV.iv.27-30) Her words paint a picture—the "spoken decor" of the Elizabethan stage made language... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1902 - 704 pages
...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...shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner. You've heard of such a spirit ; and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Receiv'd, and did... | |
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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;... 
