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A Selection Of The Best English Lyric Ballads Chosen & Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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JUDAS
v
' Be stille, leve soster, thin herte the to-breke !
Wiste min loverd Crist,
ful wel he wolde be wreke.'
St. Stephen and King Herod
i
S AINT STEPHEN was a clerk In King Herod's hall, And served him of bread and cloth As every king befall.
ii
Stephen out of kitchen came With boar's head on hand,
He saw a star was fair and bright Over Bethlehem stand.
in
He cast adown the boar's h?ad
And went into the hall: ' I forsake thee, Herod,
And thy workes all.
IV
' I forsake thee, King Herod,
And thy workes all, There is a child in Bethlehem born
Is better than we all.'—
leve] dear.            wreke] avenged.
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