The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Lines 43-79

Questions

1. What does the pardoner do when he arrives at church?
2. What does the pardoner show to the audience?
3. What does the pardoner include in his sermon to stir the people to devotion?

Answers

1. Announces his entrance
2. Indulgences of popes, cardinals, patriarchs, and bishops
3. A few Latin words