Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to the Canterbury Tales.But with these relics, when he came uponSome poor up-country priest or backwoods parson,In just one day he’d pick up far more moneyThan any parish priest was like to seeIn two whole months. With double-talk and tricksHe made the people and the priest his dupes.But to speak truth and do the fellow justice,In church he made a splendid ecclesiastic.