Summary of The Canterbury Tales

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…returned from Rome with a bagful of pardons which he planned to sell to the ignorant at a great profit to himself. He had a loud, high pitched voice, yellow, flowing hair, was beardless and furthermore would never have a beard. But there was no one so good at his profession as was this Pardoner. He knew how to sing and preach so as to frighten everyone into buying his pardons at a great price.