before instructed] Not before the feast: for if her mother bad any such intent, she would hardly trust her daughter with it: and it appears, Mark 6:24. that she went out to ask her mother, after the king had promised. Give me here John Baptists head in a charger] The mother was not content John should be killed, but must have his head in a platter, as the best dish at the feast, that she might be sure of his death, and glut her self with the sight of it. So harsh are strumpets to their reprovers.