“I humbly ask for your pardon for my misdeeds.”

“Sentenced persons may seek the right to seek a pardon or other commutation of the sentence.”

“There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.”

“Basically if you knew that you had sinned you would wait until a pardoner was in your region selling an indulgence and purchase one.”

“The pardoner is of higher intelligence, and while we condemn him we recognise his ability.”

“Put these two together, and this conceit, of the natural pardonableness of sin, vanishes alone.”

“It's just the kind of logic employed by mediaeval pardoners flogging pigs' bones as holy relics.”

“Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.”