Excerpt from Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country Why it is so I cannot say. Leafy War wickshire was an impenetrable forest. Even in modern times, as Elton tells us in his Origins of English History, it was so thickly wooded that a squirrel might leap from tree to tree for nearly the whole length of the county; and the character of the country at an earlier period is gathered from the fact that in 1250 the woods were so thick hereabout that the Constable of the Shire was commanded to cut down six acres in breadth between Coventry and Warwick for the better security of foot passengers; so under those circumstances it is no marvel that the language of the hardy woodlanders should not have suffered much from the inroads of Court gallants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.