The narrator describes a series of false relics that the Pardoner keeps in his bag. He uses these counterfeit items and his position with the papacy to take advantage of the simple people he meets on his travels. Chaucer's narrator explains that: "One day he made him more money/ than the person earned in months;/ And so with feigned flattery and jests/ he made the person and the people his monkeys" (705-708 Chaucer). That is to say, this Pardoner earns more in one day by showing off fake relics and sacred symbols than a parish priest earns in more than a month. The narrator doesn't say that he finds it overtly offensive, he simply details his observation. However, he suggests that there is quite a bit of impropriety in the Pardoner's actions, especially by describing the common people as the Pardoner's "monkeys". Additionally, the narrator provides a left-handed compliment to the Pardoner. Regarding that character's singing in church, the narrator says that: "He was... a noble ecclesiastes/...He moste preche and wel afflie his tonge/ to win silver, as he ful wel coude" (710-715 Chaucer ). The compliment is that the Pardoner sings well, but the implication is that he performs only out of concern for silver and without any worship of God. Without calling the