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In the preceding section we mentioned the musical abilities of the Prologue Friar, who sings and harps with a cheerful twinkle in his eyes [266–7]. For one kind of Chaucer critic, Huberd the tavern-haunting harpist links ironically with the biblical David, known to medieval thought as God’s harpist and singer of the Psalms (Huppé 1964, p.37).
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Blamires, A. (1987). Medieval Intellectual Contexts. In: The Canterbury Tales. The Critics Debate. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18503-0_4
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