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Acrasia

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A`cra´si`a
n.1.Excess; intemperance.


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(31) Patricia Parker has pointed out, furthermore, that the Israelites' harps (sometimes translated as "instruments") hanging on Babylonian trees also lie behind the suspended, and impotent, weapons of the knight Verdant -- "His warlike armes, the idle instruments/ Of sleeping praise, were hong upon a tree" -- the victim of the Enchantress Acrasia in book 2 of The Faerie Queene.
 
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