- (The pardoner stops his imitation of his sermon, and begins to address the pilgrims directly again.)
- By using this fraud, I've made a hundred marks every year since I've been a pardoner.
- I stand in my pulpit like a scholar, and when the ignorant people sit below me, I preach just like you've heard.
- I tell a hundred false jokes, more or less.
- Then I stretch my neck out, and gaze east and west upon the people, just like a dove sitting on a barn.
- My hands and tongue move about so quickly that everyone loves my energetic performance.
- All my preaching is about greed and other such cursed sins, in order to make the people free with their money.
- My only intention is to make money, and not at all to get people to stop sinning.
- I don't care what happens to the people after they're dead: for all I care, their souls can go berry picking!
- It's true that many sermons come out of evil intentions: some to please, some to flatter, others to secure personal advancement, still others out of vanity, or hatred.
- Sometimes I preach to get back at someone who's trash-talked me or another pardoner. I have a way of letting my listeners know exactly who I'm talking about, even if I don't name names.
- This way, I get revenge on my enemies but everyone thinks I'm just giving a holy sermon.