The Pardoners Tale Key Quotes

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A quotation for the Pardoners theme for teaching...
"Radix malorum est cupiditas" (latin for the love of money is the root of all evil)
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A quote to show the Pardoners snake like nature, biblical conotations, from the prologue...
"thus spitte out venym under hew of hooliness to seme hooly and hewe (to seem holy and true)" "i stinge him with my tonge smerte"
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A quote to show the pardoners hypocrisy from the prologue...
"for myn entent is nat but for to winne and nothing for correccioun of sinne" "ful vicious man" "hir children sterve for famine" "souls go blackberried"
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A quote about the opening sequence of the tale in Flaundres...
"fyre of lechery (lust)" "devels temple" "drinke clinke" "they daunce and pleyen at dees bothe day and night"
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A quote to show a hyperbole in descirbing the taverners actions...
"superfluitee abhominable"
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A quote to show the sin of drunkeness and gluttony...
"sampsoun, sampsoun" "O' glotonye!" "no difference finde btiiwx a man that is out of his minde and a man which that is dronkelewe" "O wombe! O belly! O stinking cod"
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A quote about swearing and blasphemy...
"forbedeth swich swering than homicide" " Mooder of lesinges and of decide and cursed forsweringes, blaspheme of Crist "
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A quote to show one of the pardoners rhetorical techniques such as apostrophising...
"O glotonye!" "O cursedness sin of all cursedness!"
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A quote about the old man...
"an old man and a povre" "turn up this crooked way" "spy" "restless kaitif"
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A quote about Deeth and the taverners attitude towards Deeth...
"we wol sleen this false traitour of Deeth" "Deeth shall be Dea
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A quote about the brotherhood of the taverners...
"to live and dien ech of hem for oother"
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A quote about the taverners love of money and greed...
"of florins fine gold ycoined rounde" "so fair a grace (gift of god)" "thanne were we in heigh felicitee (happiness, heaven)" "if kan shape it so that it departed were among us two" "two of us shul strenger be than oon (about killing him)"
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A quote about one tavrener posioning the other in order to have all the money, greed...
"our enemy (devil) putte in his though that he sholde poison beye" "this posoun is so strong and violent"
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A quote about the death of the taverners...
"thus ended been thse homicides two, and eek the false empoisonere also" "o traitours homocide! O wikkednesse"
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A quote to show the pardoner carrying on his preaching...
"i wol yow nat decieve" ""by myn heigh pwer yow that will offre as clene and eek as cleer as ye were born" "with his precious heret blood thee boghte thou art so fals and so unkinde allas? (christ died so men could be fogiven through parodons)"
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A quote for the hosts put down of the pardoner...
" be shrined in an hogges toord" "i hadde thy coillon in myn hond"
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Card 2

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"thus spitte out venym under hew of hooliness to seme hooly and hewe (to seem holy and true)" "i stinge him with my tonge smerte"

Back

A quote to show the Pardoners snake like nature, biblical conotations, from the prologue...

Card 3

Front

"for myn entent is nat but for to winne and nothing for correccioun of sinne" "ful vicious man" "hir children sterve for famine" "souls go blackberried"

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

"fyre of lechery (lust)" "devels temple" "drinke clinke" "they daunce and pleyen at dees bothe day and night"

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

"superfluitee abhominable"

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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