"I pray you now, good Child Waters,

That I may creep in at your bed's feet;

For there is no place about this house,

Where I may say a sleep."

This [night] and it drove on afterward,

Till it was near the day,

He said, "Rise up, my little foot-page,

And give my steed corn and hay;

And so do thou the good black oats,

That he may carry me the better away."