le he had to the poor. The Parson “trulyknew Christ’s gospel and would preach it” (Prologue, 491). “Never disdainful, neverto proud or fine, but was discreet in teaching and benign.” (Prologue, 525-526) Hewas the model of what a figure in the church should be like. The church figures of medieval times may have been doing wrong and beenselfish. But at least there is some that did good, such as the Parsons. He is the rolemodel to be followed, not the Nun, Monk, or the Friar. Chaucer shows how thechurch was in Medieval times in his Prologue of “The Canterbury Tales.”...
