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Dear brethren, God forgive you your trespass, And keep you from the sin of avarice; My holy pardon here can save you all, And will, so long as you make offerings Of gold and silver coin, spoons, brooches, rings— Bow down your heads before this holy bull!

–The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

What vice is Chaucer satirizing in this passage?

jealousy
anger
greed
pride

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User Giovanni
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Greed is the correct answer for your question

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User Keif Kraken
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Greed.

Greed is a desire for amongst other things wealth and power, which in a way, are equivalent.

You can notice it when this is said [...]"Gold and silver coins, spoons, brooches, rings"[...]



Hope it helped,


BioTeacher101

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