Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
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"About, about!
Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out." SHAKESPEARE, 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 the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine 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 Receiv'd, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth." --ibid WINDSOR CASTLE Book I Anne Boleyn |
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