^{7 Ref} whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

^{8 Ref} And she having been instigated by her mother -- `Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

^{9 Ref} and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded `it' to be given;