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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 God's will was.

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 God's will was.

Approximate author period: c. 1769 AD · early modern

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Thomas Percy
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Approximate author period: c. 1769 AD · early modern
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Jepthah, Judge of Israel.

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