| | A bokeler hadde he maad hym of a Cake | |
| | W | Ith hym ther rood a gentil pardoner | |
| 670 | Of rouncyuale his frend & his comper | |
| | That streight was come fro the pope of Rome | |
| | Ful lowde he song com hidir leue grom | |
| | This sompnour baar to hym a styf burdon | |
| | Was neuer trompe of half so greet a soun | |
| 675 | This pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex | |
| | And smothe it hyng as doth a strike of flex | |
| | By hounses hyng his lockis that he hadde | |
| | And there with his sholdris ouer spradde | |
| | But than it lay be Culpous one and one | |
| 680 | An hood for cold wered he none | |
| | For it was trussed vp on his walet | |
| | Hym thoughte he rood vp on the newe get | |
| | Dissheuyld saue his cappe he rood albare | |
| | Suche glarynge yen hadde he as hath an hare | |
| | His walet beforn hym had he in his lappe | |
| 685 | A vernacle hadde he sowid vp on his cappe | |
| | Brette ful of pardon com fro Rome al hoot | |
| | A vois he hadde as smal as hath a goot | |
| | No berd hadde he ne neuer sholde haue | |
| 690 | As moche was it as it were newe shaue | |
| | I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare | |
| | But of his craft from Berwik vnto ware | |
| | Ne was ther nowher suche a pardoner | |
| | For in his male he hadde a pilow beer | |
| 695 | Whiche that he sayde was our ladies veyll | |
| | He sayde he hadde a gobet of the seyll | |
