The Hypocritic Holy Man

Chaucer implements that the pardoner is a hypocrite by carrying around fake relics and preaching the very thing he has a problem with. He forgives people's sins for the good of his own pocket. The pardoner carries around fake biblical relics; astonishing people and when they give donations, the pardoner pockets the money. This is seen in the passage where it says "Which he asserted our lady's veil" it also talks about how he has part of a sail from the boat Saint Peter sailed on when he walked on water with Jesus. The pardoner also carries the bones of pigs which he claims are the bones of old saints. The pardoner sings and talks in churches as seen in the passage "But best of all he sang an offertory/ for well he knew that when that song was sung/ he'd have to preach and tune his honey tounge/ and (well he could) win silver from the crowd/ that's why he sang so merrily and loud." When doing this, he is getting money for the same thing he is preaching against; which is greed, selfishness, and hypocrocy.