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Often appears with: satire of mendicant clergy · friar versus summoner · crime and punishment · corruption, patronage, and bribery · corruption in church courts · censorship and the press · bribery
Usually: narrative (1) · the test or trial (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
In the Friar’s Tale prologue, a limitour and a friar trade insults and then the Host orders the friar’s satire on a Sompnour, portrayed as corrupt and murderous in pursuit of bribes.
“Peter; so be the women of the stives,”* *stews Quoth this Sompnour, “y-put out of our cure.”* *care “Peace, with mischance and with misaventure,” Our Hoste said, “and let him tell his tale. Now telle forth, and let the Sompnour gale,* *whistle; bawl Nor spare not, mine owen master dear.” This false thief, the Sompnour (quoth the Frere), Had always bawdes ready to his hand, As any hawk to lure in Engle…