<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346033" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jephthah Judge of Israel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you not heard these many years ago,<br>Jeptha was judge of Israel?<br>He had one only daughter and no mo,<br>The which he loved passing well.<br>And as by lott,<br>God wot,<br>It so came to pass,<br>As Gods will was,<br>That great wars there should be,<br>And none should be chosen chief but he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when he was appointed judge,<br>And chieftain of the company,<br>A solemn vow to God he made,<br>If he returned with victory,<br>At his return,<br>To burn<br>The first live thing,<br>****<br>That should meet with him then,<br>Off his house when he should return agen.<br>It came to pass, the wars was o'er,<br>And he returned with victory;<br>His dear and only daughter first of all<br>Came to meet her father foremostly:<br>And all the way<br>She did play<br>On tabret and pipe,<br>Full many a stripe,<br>With note so high,<br>For joy that her father is come so nigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he saw his daughter dear<br>Coming on most foremostly,<br>He wrung his hands, and tore his hair,<br>And cryed out most piteously:<br>'Oh! it's thou,' said he,<br>'That have brought me Low,<br>And troubled me so, <br>That I know not what to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For I have made a vow,' he sed,<br>'The which must be replenished;'<br>****<br>'What thou hast spoke<br>Do not revoke,<br>What thou hast said;<br>Be not afraid;<br>Altho' it be I,<br>Keep promises to God on high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But, dear father, grant me one request,<br>That I may go to the wilderness,<br>Three months there with my friends to stay;<br>There to bewail my virginity;<br>And let there be,'<br>Said he,<br>'Some two or three<br>Young maids with me.'<br>So he sent her away,<br>For to mourn, for to mourn, till her dying day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346033" data-title="Jephthah Judge of Israel de Anonymous Olde English" data-description="Have you not heard these many years ago, Jeptha was judge of Israel? He had one only daughter and no mo, The which he loved passing well. And as by lott, God wot, It so came to pass, As Gods will was, That great wars there should be, And none shou..."></div> </div> </div>

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