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(1) If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an Oak, 
And peg thee in his knotty entrails.— Tempest , i. 2, 294. 
(2) To the dread rattling thunder 
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove’s stout Oak 
With his own bolt.— Ibid., v. 1, 44. 
(3) At the Duke’s Oak we meet. 
Midsummer Night 1 s Dream, i. 2, 113. 
(4) An Oak with but one green leaf on it would have answered her. 
Much Ado About Nothing , ii. 1, 247. 
(5) Thou split’st the unwedgeable and gnarled Oak. 
Measure for Measure, ii. 2, 114. (^Myrtle.) 
(6) He lay along 
Under an Oak, whose antique root peeps out 
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood. 
As You Like It, ii. 1, 30. 
(7) Under an Oak, whose boughs were Mossed with age, 
And high top bald with dry antiquity.— Ibid., iv. 3, 156. 
(8) As ever Oak or stone was sound.— Winter s Tale, ii. 3, 89. 
(9) And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d Oak. 
3 rd Henry VI, ii. 1, 54. 
(10) 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. 
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Page. Why yet there want not many that do fear 
In deep of night to walk by this Herne’s Oak. 
Mrs. Ford. That Falstaff at that Oak shall meet with us. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 4, 28, 
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