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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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