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AN EPI8TLE.

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AN EPISTLE.

FROM JOBHUA IBN VIVES OF ALIOEQUI TO HIN FOR-

MEE MASTAR, BOLOMON LEYI-FAUL, DE MANTA-XARIA BIBHUP OF CARTAGENA CHANCELLOE OT CASTILE, AND

PRIYT OOUYCILLOR TO KNG HEXRY L OF BPAD

In thl poam I have dona Uttle more thn elabarata and verity he aooom glven in Graets's History of tha Jawa (Yol YIL, page T7), af Epietle actually written in tha beginning of the 15th cankury by Joahus ben Joasph In Viras to Peulus da Banta Maris -EL (I)

I.

Master And Sage, greetings and health to thee,
From thy most meek disciple! Deign once more
Endure me at thy feet, enlighten me,
Aa when npon my boyish head of yore,
Midst the rapt circle gathered round thy knee
Thy sacred vials of learning thou didst pour.

By the large lustre of thy wiedom orbed
Be my black doubta illumined and abaorbed.

IL.

Oft I recall that golden time when thou,
Born for no second station, heldst with us
The Rabbi's ahair, who art prieat and bishop now
And we, the youth of Iarael, curioas,
Hung on thy coansels, lifted reverent brow
Unto thy sanctity, would fain discuss

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