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For the people of this city are by nature so sottish, idle, and good-for-nothing, that a mountebank, a pardoner come from Rome to sell indulgences, or a fiddler in the crossways, will attract together more of them than a good preacher of the Gospel. So troublesome were they in pursuing Gargantua, that he was compelled to seek a resting-place on the towers of Notre Dame.
Presumptuous man, stand back. Oh, mighty and merciful Death! Death the liberator, the deliverer, the pardoner, the peace-maker! Even the shadow of thy face can quench the fires of revenge; even the gathering of thy wings can deaden the clamour of madness, and turn hatred into love and curses into prayers. In that stripped and naked house there was one room still untouched.
His scheme succeeded; for great was the sale of these hymns and ballads at a halfpenny a piece in the streets of Glamerton. Even those who bought to laugh, could not help feeling an occasional anticipatory sting of which, being sermon-seared, they were never conscious under pulpit denunciation. The pedler having emptied his wallet not like that of Chaucer's Pardoner,
If you want a proof from Scripture that there are two sides to our blessed Lord's character that He is a Judge and an Avenger as well as a Saviour and a Pardoner that He is infinitely severe as well as infinitely merciful that, while we may come boldly to His throne of grace to find help and mercy in time of need, we must, at the same time, tremble before His throne of justice if you want a proof of all this, I say, then look at the Epistle and the Gospel for this day.
Among the friars who went about preaching homilies on the people's favourite vices some humorous rogues may, like the "Pardoner" of the "Canterbury Tales," have made a point of treating their own favourite vice as their one and unchangeable text: My theme is always one, and ever was: Radix malorum est cupiditas.
5: Act iii sc. 5. 6: The Return from Parnassus, act v. sc. 7: Ibid., act iv. sc. 3. 8: The Pardoner and the Friar: 1533. 9: Collier's Drama, i. 104. 10: The Political Use of the Stage in Shakspere's Time. New Shakspere Society: 1874, ii. p. 371. Henry Stalbrydge, Epistle Exhortatory, &c.: 1544. 11: This threat was uttered against Chapman, Ben Jonson, and Marston on account of Eastward Hoe.
There followed, after Justice Godfrey, a pardoner, dressed as a priest, in a black cope sown all over with death's heads, waving papers in his hands, and proclaiming indulgences to all Protestant-killers, so loud that he might be heard at Charing Cross; and next behind him a fellow carrying a silver cross, that shone very fine in the red light of the bonfire and the flambeaux, and drew attention to what came after.
The latter interludes, however, display more of every-day life than was ever observable in the moralities; and more closely approximate to modern plays. Several writers of genius have written interludes, amongst whom are the English Skelton and the Scottish Lindsay, the latter of whom wrote eight pieces of that kind, the most celebrated of which is called "The Puir Man and the Pardoner."
Chaucer relates that the "pardoner, and the miller, and other lewd sots," whiled away the time with staring at the painted windows which then adorned the nave, and wondering what they were supposed to represent: "'He beareth a ball-staff, quoth the one, 'and also a rake's end; 'Thou failest, quoth the miller, 'thou hast not well thy mind; It is a spear, if thou canst see, with a prick set before, To push adown his enemy, and through the shoulder bore."
"Ha, rogue!" quoth Giles, "when I was a monk we had four thumbs of the good Saint Alban " "Why then, content you, fond youth," smiled the Pardoner, "my thumb is number one " "Oh, tall brother," quoth Giles, "'tis an irreverent knave, that maketh the monk in me arise, my very toes do twitch for to kick his lewd and sacrilegious carcase and, lord, he would kick wondrous soft "
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