Shake-Speare:
In Hamlet 3.2.284
[Hamlet describes the feathers which actors sported on their hats as] "a forest of feathers".
[Hamlet describes the feathers which actors sported on their hats as] "a forest of feathers".
Bacon, who was under pressure to sell his woods at his Gorhambury estate, said: "I will not be stripped of my feathers!" from Aubrey's Brief Lives
Comment: So both authors use the rather odd metaphor of feathers as a forest or wood.
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