• The Pardoner, from Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer. The Pardoner, as depicted by William Blake in The Canterbury Pilgrims (1810).
  • Here biginneth the Pardoners Tale. In Flaundres whylom was a companye. Of yonge folk, that haunteden folye ... Here is ended the Pardoners Tale.
  • These relics, he admits, are fake, and that he is gripped by the very greed he preaches against. The Pardoners tale also illustrates how sin can lead to a person...
  • So grant you each his pardon to receive ... Sir pardoner, be glad and merry here; And you, sir host, who are to me so dear, I pray you that you kiss the pardoner.
  • themselves at tables in front of an inn. The pardoner is drunk, which explains his boastful and revealing confession of his deceits. THE TALE <1>.
  • Chaucer finds it difficult to approve of most of the pilgrims who earn their living from religion, and the Pardoner is no exception.
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  • The Pardoner is an unsavory character, openly stating that he doesn’t care whether his work prevents sin or saves people as long as he gets paid.
  • The more genteel members of the company, fearing that the Pardoner will tell a vulgar story, ask the Pardoner for a tale with a moral.
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