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    The passage summarizes Geoffrey Chaucer's character "The Pardoner" from The Canterbury Tales. It describes the Pardoner's physical appearance in an unflattering way, noting his thin yellow hair, bulging eyes like a hare, and a voice like a goat. It explains that the Pardoner carries fake religious relics in his wallet and uses them to scam money from rural parishioners by granting indulgences. While a skilled preacher and storyteller, the Pardoner's real job is to con people out of their money.

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    The passage summarizes Geoffrey Chaucer's character "The Pardoner" from The Canterbury Tales. It describes the Pardoner's physical appearance in an unflattering way, noting his thin yellow hair, bulging eyes like a hare, and a voice like a goat. It explains that the Pardoner carries fake religious relics in his wallet and uses them to scam money from rural parishioners by granting indulgences. While a skilled preacher and storyteller, the Pardoner's real job is to con people out of their money.

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    The passage summarizes Geoffrey Chaucer's character "The Pardoner" from The Canterbury Tales. It describes the Pardoner's physical appearance in an unflattering way, noting his thin yellow hair, bulging eyes like a hare, and a voice like a goat. It explains that the Pardoner carries fake religious relics in his wallet and uses them to scam money from rural parishioners by granting indulgences. While a skilled preacher and storyteller, the Pardoner's real job is to con people out of their money.

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    in the Middle Ages

    Storytelling p. 70
    Tales, Boccaccio's ) Decameron is a
    Canterbury prologue. In the
    The framework of a Decamer%
    Like Chauceds set into the
    young men who retire
    stories three to the
    collectionof seven girls and
    told by in Florence. The stories
    the talesare that was raging they
    escape the plague to give a total view of soci
    country to are designed
    pass the time cheerfully Ages emerges in the tales ratherthan
    tell to of the Middle
    variety
    and the social who belong to the
    aristocracy. Chaucer has his talestold
    storytellers, tomb of saint Thomas
    in the
    of pilgrims going to visit the Becketin
    by a number pilgrims tell their stories 'to shorten withour
    Comparing The
    CanterburyCathedral. Boccaccio's storytellers, Chaucer's group of pilgrims
    way'. However,
    unlike
    from all walks of life, and each storytellertellsa
    Perspectives includesrepresentatives cultural level, social class and character,as
    his or her
    tale accordingto
    CHAUCER AND BOCCACCIO described in the Prologue.

    The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)


    Geoffrey Chaucer

    One of the pilgrims in Chaucer's General


    Prologue is a Pardoner.
    A Pardoner is a preacher who raises money for
    the Church by soliciting offerings and granting
    indulgences. The selling of indulgences
    (by making a monetary contribution to the
    Church a penitent could receive a partial or total
    pardon for his sins) was becoming widespread
    and very popular during the Middle Ages.

    This Pardoner had hair as yellow


    as waxl
    Hanging down smoothly like
    a hank of flax2'
    In driblets3 fell his locks
    behind his head
    Down to his shoulderswhich The Pardoner, a
    characterin
    they overspread; Tales.This serg
    5 Thinly they fell, like The Canterbury
    rat-tails, one by one. from Chaucer
    He wore no hood4 upon of illustrations is editedbyJ0t
    his head, for fun; Canterbury Tales, by
    The hood inside his published
    wallet had been Saunders and
    He aimed at riding stowed, (1889),bas
    in the latest J M Dent & Co Man
    But for a little caps
    his head was
    mode; those in the Ellesmere
    10 And he had bare
    bulging eye-balls,
    He'd sewed a holy like a hare6
    relic on his cap;
    His wallet lay
    before him on 1 wax: cera
    Brimful' of pardons his lap, 2 flax. Iino
    He had the same come from Rome all 3 driblets.•boccoli
    15His chin no small voice a hot.
    goat has got. 4 hood : cappuccio
    beard had cap
    Smoother than harbored, 5 But fora little
    ever chin was nor would harbor, A parte un cappellino
    left by
    68 barber. 6 hare. lepre
    7 Brimful •Pieno
    STORYTELLING IN THE MIDDLE AGES

    I judge he was a gelding 8, or a mare9.


    As to his trade, from Berwick down to Ware
    There was no pardoner of equal grace,
    20 For in his trunk10he had a pillow-case
    Which he assertedwas Our Lady's veil.
    He said he had a gobbetll of the sail
    Saint Peter had the time when he made bold
    To walk the waves,tillJesu Christ took hold.
    25 He had a cross of metal set with stones
    And, in a glass, a rubble of pigs' bones.
    And with these relics,any time he found
    Some poor up-country parson12to astound,
    On one short day,in money down, he drew13
    30 More than the parson in a month or two,
    And by his flatteries and prevarication
    Made monkeys of' 4 the priest and congregation.
    But still to do him justice first and last 8 gelding: (cavallo)
    castrato
    In church he was a noble ecclesiast. 9 mare: cavalla
    35 How well he read a lesson or told a story! 10 trunk: baule
    But best of all he sang an Offertory, Il gobbet: pezzetto
    12 up-country
    For well he knew that when that song was sung parson: curato
    He'd have to preach and tune his honey-tongue di campagna
    13 drew: guadagnava
    And (well he could) win silverfrom the crowd. 14 Made monkeys
    40 That's why he sang so merrily and loud. of: Ingannava

    COMPREHENSION
    Read the text from The Pardoner and write information about the following elements.
    The Pardoner's
    1 hair: 4 wallet:
    2 eyes: 5 holy relics:
    3 voice: 6 real job:
    The Wonderful Story
    of Britain: The Poet 2 Answer the questions.
    Chaucer and the 1 Has the Pardoner really been to Rome in your opinion?
    Pilgrims, illustrated
    by Peter Jackson 2 Which of his relics are clearly fakes?
    (1922-2003), 3 Why is he so interested in the offertory during mass?
    PrivateCollection. 4 Will he give the money to the Church or will he keep it for himself?

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