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(11) To-night at Herne’s Oak. — Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 6,19. 
(12) Be you in the park about midnight at Herne’s Oak, and you shall 
see wonders.— Ibid.,\. 1, 11. 
(13) Mrs. Page. They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne’s Oak. 
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Mrs. Ford. The hour draws on. The Oak, to the Oak ! 
Ibid., v. 3, 14. 
(14) “ Till ’tis one o’clock 
Our dance of custom round about the Oak 
Of Herne the Hunter, let us not forget.-—/fob 7 ., v. 5, 78. 
(15) That numberless upon me stuck as leaves 
Do on the Oak, have with one winter’s brush 
Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare 
For every storm that blows. — Timon of Athens, iv. 3, 263. 
(16) The Oaks bear mast, the Briers scarlet hips.— Ibid., 422. 
(17) What ribs of Oak, when mountains melt on them, 
Can hold the mortise?— Othello, ii. 1, 7. 
(18) She that so young could give out such a seeming 
To seel her father’s eyes up close as Oak.— Ibid. , iii. 3, 209. 
(19) He that depends 
Upon your favours swims with fins of lead 
And hews down Oaks with rushes.— Coriolanns, i. 1, 183. 
(20) To thee the Reed is as the Oak.— Cymbeline, iv. 2, 267. 
(21) Oak-cleaving thunderbolts.— King Lear, iii. 2, 5. 
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Though to myself forsworn, to thee I’ll faithful prove ; 
Those thoughts to me were Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow’d. 
Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 2, 11. 
[The same lines in the “ Passionate Pilgrim.”] 
When the splitting wind. 
Makes flexible the knees of knotted Oaks. 
Troilus and Cressida, i. 3, 49. 
(24) To a cruel war I sent him, from whence he returned, his brews bound 
with Oak.— Coriolanus, i. 3, 14. 
He comes the third time home, with Oaken garland. 
Ibid., ii. 1, 137. 
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