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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Windsor Castle, by William Harrison Ainsworth This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Windsor Castle Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2866] Release Date: October, 2001 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINDSOR CASTLE *** Produced by Grant Macandrew WINDSOR CASTLE By William H. Ainsworth "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 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 Oak. In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the 21st of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him. On his right stretched the broad green expanse forming the Home Park, studded with noble trees, chiefly consisting of ancient oaks, of which England had already learnt to be proud, thorns as old or older than the oaks, wide-spreading beeches, tall elms, and hollies. The disposition of these trees was picturesque and beautiful in the extreme. Here, at the end of a sweeping vista, and in the midst of an open space covered with the gre
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