4.1 The Pardoner's Tale Quotes

Question 1

Pardoner’s hair

Answer 1

“This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex”

Question 2

Pardoner’s beard

Answer 2

“No berde hadde he, ne nevre sholde have”

Question 3

Mare

Answer 3

I trowe he were a gelding or a mare”

Question 4

Greed is…

Answer 4

Radix malorum est cupiditas”

Question 5

Apes

Answer 5

He made the person and the peple his apes

Question 6

Honest things

Answer 6

“I moot thinke upon som honest thing while that I drinke”

Question 7

Bell quote

Answer 7

And ringe it out as round as gooth a belle”

Question 8

Holy work

Answer 8

Me to destorbe Cristes hooly werk

Question 9

Saffron

Answer 9

To saffron with my predication

Question 10

Authority of the bull

Answer 10

And I assoille him by the auctoritee which that by bulle ygraunted to me”

Question 11

pulpet

Answer 11

I stonde lyk a clerk in my pulpet”

Question 12

Japes

Answer 12

Telle an hundred false japes more

Question 13

blackberried

Answer 13

hir soules goon a-blakeberied”

Question 14

Poverty

Answer 14

that I wol live in poverte wilfully? Nay, nay, I thoghte it nevere, trewely

Question 15

Labour with my hands

Answer 15

“I wol nat do labour with mine handes”

Question 16

Money, clothes etc.

Answer 16

I wol have moneie, wolle, chese, and whete”

Question 17

Liquor of the vine

Answer 17

“ I wol drinke licour of the vine, and have a joly wenche in every toun

Question 18

Triadic cursedness

Answer 18

O glutonye, ful of cursedness!/ O cause first of oure confusioun!/ O original of our
dampnacioun

Question 19

Triadic cod

Answer 19

O wombe! O bely! O stinking cod”

Question 20

Wyn and dronkeness

Answer 20

A lecherous thing is wyn, and dronkenesse”

Question 21

Sampsoun

Answer 21

Sampsoun, Sampsoun

Question 22

Lamuel

Answer 22

Nat Samuel, but Lamuel, seye I

Question 23

Stilboun

Answer 23

stilboun, that was a wys embassadour

Question 24

Crist

Answer 24

For the love of Crist

Question 25

bell 2

Answer 25

Herde a belle clinke

Question 26

Death shall be dead

Answer 26

Deeth shall be deed

Question 27

The eucharist

Answer 27

Cristes blessed body al torente

Question 28

To the end of the earth

Answer 28

I walked into Inde

Question 29

Mother nature

Answer 29

Leeve mooder, leet me in!/ lo how I vanisshe, flessh and blood and skin!

Question 30

Finde deeth

Answer 30

If that yow be so leef, to finde deeth

Question 31

Florins

Answer 31

Of florins fine of gold ycoined rounde”

Question 32

Cursedness

Answer 32

O cursed since of alle cursednesse!/ O traitours homicide, O wikkednesse

Question 33

Nobles

Answer 33

Offre nobles or sterlinges”

Question 34

Brooches

Answer 34

or elles silver brooches, spoones, ringes”

Question 35

breaking necks

Answer 35

Dooun of his hors, and breke his nekke atow

Question 36

Host

Answer 36

com forth, sire Hoost, and offre first anon

Question 37

Kissing

Answer 37

Thou wouldest make me kisse thyn olde breech, and swere it were a relik of a seint”

Question 38

Knight intervention

Answer 38

Namoore of this, for it is right ynough

Question 39

Knight intervention 2

Answer 39

I prey yow that ye kisse the Pardoner”

Question 40

Sinner

Answer 40

“For though myself be a ful vicious man,

A moral tale yet I yow telle kan”

Question 41

Avarice

Answer 41

“Thus kan I preche again that same vice

Which that I use, and that is avarice”.

Question 42

Death dead

Answer 42

“Deeth shal be deed, if that they may him hente”

Excerpt From: Richard, Swan. “Philip Allan Literature Guide (for A-Level): The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (Philip Allan Literature Guides).” Hodder Education, 2012-12-07T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Question 43

Leeve mooder

Answer 43

“And on the ground, which is my moodres gate,
I knokke with my staf, bothe erly and late,
And seye, “Leeve mooder, leet me in!”

Excerpt From: Richard, Swan. “Philip Allan Literature Guide (for A-Level): The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (Philip Allan Literature Guides).” Hodder Education, 2012-12-07T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Question 44

Bailly

Answer 44

“I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond
In stide of relikes or of seintuarie.
Lat kutte hem of, I wol thee helpe hem carie;
They shul be shrined in an hogges toord”

Excerpt From: Richard, Swan. “Philip Allan Literature Guide (for A-Level): The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (Philip Allan Literature Guides).” Hodder Education, 2012-12-07T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Question 45

My theme

Answer 45

My theme is alwey oon and evere was Radix Malorum est Cupiditas

Question 46

In Latin

Answer 46

In Latin I speke a wordes fewe

Question 47

Offre…

Answer 47

Offre pens, or elles grotes

Question 48

Spitting venom

Answer 48

Thus spitte I my venym under hewe of hooliness

Question 49

Atilla

Answer 49

Looke, Attilla, the grete conquerour, deyde in his sleepe

Question 50

Estate

Answer 50

And ever the hyer he is of estaat, the moore is he hllden desolaat