FHS2 T3 Pardoner & Manciple

Togidres han thise thre hir trouthes plight / To lyve and dyen ech of hem for oother (VI, 702-703)

PT - pledge the brothers make to each other

Radix Malorum est Cupiditas (VI, 334)

moral of the Pardoner's tale - PT prologue

telle us som myrth or japes right anon (VI, 319)

What does the host tell the Pardoner to tell? PT introduction

with feyned flaterye and japes, / He made the person and the people his apes (I, 707)

GP pardoner - implications of his stories for those listening

'sentence' 'solaas'

What is Physician's tale found to be lacking?

I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare (I, 691)

GP on Pardoner - horse

No berd hadde he, ne nevere should have (I, 689)

GP pardoner - beard

But trewely to tellen at laste (I, 707)

GP Prologue - even narrator falls into trap of false speech

Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie (I, 709)

GP pardoner - shedding doubt on storytelling

For lewed peple loven tales olde (VI, 437)

PT prologue - same use of terms for people, how they love stories. undermines whole pilgrimage enterprise

for myn entente is nat but for to wynne, / And nothyng for correccioun of synne (VI, 403-4)

PT Prologue - his 'entente'

Thou woldest make me kisse thyn olde breech, / And swere it were a relyk of a seint (VI, 948-9)

PT tale - kissing breeches at the end - reference to St. Thomas a Becket (the authentic relic)

For this was outrely his fulle entente, / To sleen hem bothe and nevere to repente (VI, 849-50)

PT tale - brother's intention

Nobles or pens, whiche that be goode and trewe. (VI, 930)

PT tale - truth and currency

My sone, be war, and be noon auctour newe / Of tidynges, wheither they been false or trewe (IX, 359-60)

MT - his mother to him, truth

If men shal telle proprely a thyng, / The word moot cosyn be to the werkyng (IX, 209-10)

MT - m questioning his own word choice - separation of language from thing?

Ne trowe no thyng withouten strong witnesse (IX, 284)

MT - what Phoebus takes from it

I wol thee quite anon thy false tale (IX, 293)

MT - what Phoebus says to the crow

Ne telleth nevere no man in youre lyf / How that another man hath dight his wyf (IX, 311-12)

MT - instructing the listeners (what not to tell them)

In muchel speche synne wanteth naught (IX, 338)

MT - over-speaking

This is th' effect; ther is namoore to sayn (IX, 266)

MT - what m says after Phoebus has killed his wife (goes on to contradict)

And tellen fables and wich wrecchednesse. (X, 34)

Parson's prologue - denouncing fiction

Telle us som moral thyng, that we may leere (IV.325)

PT what the gentils ask for