The Canterbury Tales The Knight is the perfect and extremely polite man who loved truth, freedom, chivalry, and honor. He was well-known man. He had ridden into a battle in both Christian and heathen lands and in every instance served his king well. He never boasted of his actions nor bored his listeners with his achievements. The Squire would be candidate for knighthood. When not in battle, he thinks himself as quite a lady’s …showed first 75 words of 978 total…

…showed last 75 words of 978 total…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.