文档介绍：Windsor Castle
by William Harrison Ainsworth
作者简介
安斯沃思( ),
历史小说作家,生于大曼彻斯特。早年学习法律,却开始了文学生
涯。最为称道的是他写的《鲁克伍德》( ),使得
拦路大盗特平的故事广为流传,还有《温泽堡》(
)中的猎人赫恩的传奇被人津津乐道。他是《安斯沃
思杂志》( ’)主编( ),写了
近部通俗历史小说。
"About, about! Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out."
SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor
Windsor Castle 1
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 magnifi-
cent 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 greenest sward, stood a mighty broad-armed oak, beneath
whose ample boughs, though as yet almost destitute of foliage, while the
sod beneath them could scarcely boast a head of fern, couched a herd of
deer. There lay a thicket of thorns skirting a sand-bank, burrowed by rabbits,
on this hand grew a dense and Druid-like grove, into whose intricacies the
slanting sunbeams pierced; on that extended a long glade, formed by a
natural avenue of oaks, across which, at intervals, deer were passing. Nor
were human figures wanting to give life and interest to the scene. Adown
the glade came two keepers of the forest, having each