{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch022.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch022.htm","text":"22.1 SEYNT Steuene was a clerk in kyng Herowdes halle,\nAnd seruyd him of bred and cloth, as euery kyng befalle.\n22.2 Steuyn out of kechone cam, wyth boris hed on honde;\nHe saw a sterre was fayr and bryy+ot ouer Bedlem stonde.\n22.3 He kyst adoun the boris hed and went in to the halle:\n\u2018I forsak the, kyng Herowdes, and thi werkes alle.\n22.4 \u2018I forsak the, kyng Herowdes, and thi werkes alle;\nRRther is a chyld in Bedlem born is beter than we alle.\u2019\n22.5 \u2018Quat eylyt the, Steuene? quat is the befalle?\nLakkyt the eyther mete or drynk in kyng Herowdes halle!\u2019\n22.6 kit me neyther mete ne drynk in kyng Herowdes halle;\nRRther is a chyld in Bedlem born is beter than we alle.\u2019\n22.7 Quat eylyt the, Steuyn? art thu wod, or thu gynnyst to brede?\nLakkyt the eyther gold or fe, or ony ryche wede?\u2019\n22.8 \u2018Lakyt me neyther gold ne fe, ne non ryche wede;\nRRther is a chyld in Bedlem born xal helpyn vs at our nede.\u2019\n22.9 \u2018RRthat is al so soth, Steuyn, al so soth, iwys,\nAs this capoun crowe xal that lyth here in myn dysh.\u2019\n22.10 RRthat word was not so sone seyd, that word in that halle,\nTHe capoun crew Cristus natus est! among the lordes alle.\n22.11 Rysyt vp, myn turmentowres, be to and al be on,\nAnd ledyt Steuyn out of this town, and stonyt hym wyth ston!\u2019\n22.12 Tokyn he Steuene, and stonyd hym in the way,\nAnd therfore is his euyn on Crystes owyn day.","title":"The Child Ballads: 22. St. Stephen and Herod","type":"page"}