General Prologue: Human Dishonesty, Stupidity And Virtue

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others had done it for
other reasons. Those reasons included making money from people's suffering and
giving to charity because someone told them to do so, rather than from the
goodness of their hearts or to ease the suffering of others. Chaucer plays off
both of these parts of charity in his portraits to show how they can be combined
differently in different people and to distinguish "true" charity from "false"
charity.

Parson exemplifies Chaucer's idea of true charity. Even though Parson
does not have any money, he considers himself rich spiritually. Going around
the village, he teaches the poor and those who can't go to church about what G-d
is and how to be a religious person. He gives more than he receives. In fact,
he avoids preaching to the rich and well-to-do because he prefers going to the
humble and poor, who truly need his help and G-d. He doesn't run to London to
earn easy bread

By singing masses for the wealthy dead,
Or find some Brotherhood and get ...

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