"He had a pair of boots as broad as a boat, And on his head...

"He had a pair of boots as broad as a boat,

And on his head he had a cap as broad as a buckler,

The brims were splayed out like the sails of a ship.

He wore a gray coat with pouches hanging down,

Which were stuffed full of pardons from Rome.

He had a pouch full of relics too,

Which he would show to people for a fee."

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales..

London: Penguin Classics, 1951.

In the passage from "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, the speaker is describing the: