- Ne spareth not, mine own master dear.” This false thief, this Summoner, quoth the Friar, Had alway bawds ready to his hand, As any hawk to lure in England
- The Friar’s Tale is directed at the Summoner, one of the Friar’s fellow pilgrims, his rival for correcting the sins of Christians.
- This Sompnour clapped at the widow's gate: 'Come out,' he said, 'thou olde very trate;* *trot <15> I trow thou hast some friar or priest with thee.'
- The regular clergy, and particularly the mendicant friars, affected a total exemption from all ecclesiastical jurisdiction, except that of the Pope, which made them...
- The Canterbury Tales | The Friar's Prologue and Tale Summary & Analysis | Geoffrey Chaucer.50 bin görüntülemeYayınlandı30 Kas 2017
- The Host faux politely appeals to the Friar's overblown notion of himself as "curteys" (1287) and recommends no debate, but the Summoner tells him to bring it...
- The Host admonishes the Friar to tell something else, but the Summoner interrupts and says that, if the Friar tells an uncomplimentary tale about a summoner...
- Mr Wright remarks that "the sermons of the friars in the fourteenth century were most frequently designed to impress the ahsolute duty of paying full tithes and...
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- This false thief, then, this summoner (said the friar) Had always panders ready to his hand, For any hawk to lure in all England, Who told him all the scandal...