Sep 12, 2006 17:05
"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." Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor