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Note to Hamlet, 5.2.41-42: "As peace should still her wheaten garland wear / And stand a comma 'tween their amities"
The elaborate language that Hamlet uses mocks the hypocritical political language of the message demanding that England execute Hamlet.
ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF ABUNDANCE, THE DAUGHTER OF PEACE
by
Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566)