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"The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary and side-by-side middle english and modern english; Modern Translation of the Pardoner's Tale and Other Resources at eChaucer; The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale e-text for reading, searching, and study Archived 7 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine – texts.crossref-it.info
The Pardoner, from the Ellesmere Chaucer. A distinction is drawn between the charlatan and other kinds of confidence tricksters. The charlatan is usually a salesperson of a certain service or product, who has no personal relationship with his "marks" (customers or clients), and avoids elaborate hoaxes or roleplaying con-games.
The word "pitee", for example, is a noble concept to the upper classes, while in the Merchant's Tale it refers to sexual intercourse. Again, however, tales such as the Nun's Priest's Tale show surprising skill with words among the lower classes of the group, while the Knight's Tale is at times extremely simple. [32]
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Cover page of The Four PP by John Heywood showing the three chief characters Pedlar, Pothecary and Pardoner amid the lying competition.. The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler or The Four PP (pronounced "pees", plural of the name of the letter P) is an interlude by John Heywood written around 1530 that relates the tale of ...
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The second fragment is a satire on the mores of the time, with respect to courting, religious order, and religious hypocrisy. In the second fragment, the narrator is able to kiss the rose, but then the allegorical character Jealousy builds a fortress encircling it so that the narrator does not have access to it.