The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale Quotes

Bulles of popes and cardynales,Of patriarkes and bishopes I shewe,And in Latyn I speke a wordes fewe,To saffron with my predicacioun,And for to stire hem to devocioun. (56 – 60)

And thanne my bulles shewe I, alle and some;Oure lige lordes seel on my patente,That shewe I first, my body to warente,That no man be so boold, ne preest ne clerk,Me to destourbe of Cristes hooly w...

I rekke nevere, whan that they been beryed,Though that hir soules been a-blakebereyed. (119-120)

He that his hand wol putte in this mitayn,He shal have multipliyng of his graynWhat he hath sowen, be it whete or otes,So that he offre pens, or elles grotes. (87 – 90)

Oure lige lordes seel on my patente,That shewe I first, my body to warente,That no man be so boold, ne preest ne clerk,Me to destourbe of Cristes hooly werk. (51 – 54)

Goode men and wommen, o thyng warne I yow,If any wight be in this chirche nowThat hath doon synne horrible, that heDar nat for shame of it yshryven be,Or any womman, be she yong or old,That hath ym...

Lordynges, quod he, in chirches whan I preche,I peyne me to han an hauteyn speche,And rynge it out as round as gooth a belle,For I kan al by rote that I telle. (43 – 46)