Even in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the monk, the friar, the pardoner, and the prioress are definitely seen as symbols of wealth, and greed rather than humility and piety.

即使在乔叟《伯雷故事集》中，僧侣、修道、赦罪僧和女修道院院长确地视为财富和贪婪象征，而不是谦逊和虔诚象征。