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The Friar's Prologue and Tale

usury (usure) charging interest on money lent, a practice forbidden by canon law.

simony (symonye) the sin of using the church for personal financial gain, a frequent violation.

lechery (lecchours) excessive sexual indulgence.

Archbishop Dunstan (924-988) an archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized.

Virgil, Dante (Virgile, Dant) Virgil has a description of hell in his Aeneid, and Dante has the elaborate, complicated Inferno. The fiend tells the Summoner that he will be better able to describe hell after seeing it than did the two poets.

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