Read the excerpt from the general prolgue to the canterbury tales. in church he made a splendid ecclesiastic. he’d read a lesson, or saint’s history, but best of all he sang the offertory: for, knowing well that when that hymn was sung, he’d have to preach and polish smooth his tongueto raise—as only he knew how—the wind, the louder and the merrier he would sing. how does the author characterize the pardon-seller in this excerpt?