Read the excerpt from the general prolgue to the canterbury tales. but with these relics, when he came upon some poor up-country priest or backwoods parson, in just one day he’d pick up far more money than any parish priest was like to see in two whole months. with double-talk and tricks he made the people and the priest his dupes. but to speak truth and do the fellow justice, in church he made a splendid ecclesiastic. which underlined word best characterizes the pardon-seller as a swindler? backwoods money double-talk priest