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If the relics did not seem to work, it was obviously because of the sinful man or woman who purchased them, and no fault of the Pardoner. The Pardoner would routinely say to his potential customers, “Good men and women, I warn you of one thing, If anyone is now in this church, Who has done a horrible sin, so that he for shame, be confessed of it, be she young or old, Who has made her husband a cuckold, such people shall have neither power nor grace, To make offering to my relics here” (Hopper, 346)...
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By extolling his ability to profit from deception and fear, the Pardoner offers himself as a clear example of the phrase he himself was fond of saying, “Avarice is the root of all evil” (Hopper, 343). He then proceeds to “to tell a moral story” (Robertson, 333) of three rioters and their search for Death “which actually constitutes a kind of self-portrait” (Robertson, 333)...
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