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Book 1. Anne Boleyn
Book 1. Anne Boleyn - Chapter 1
_ BOOK I. ANNE BOLEYN
CHAPTER I
"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
CHAPTER I
Of the Earl of Surrey‘s solitary Ramble in the Home Park--Of
the Vision beheld by him in the Haunted Dell--And of his
Meeting with Morgan Fenwolf, the Keeper, beneath Herne‘s
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