... fact that, instead of living the life of a chaste clergyman, he was lustful for Alison and every other woman. The following is Chaucer's description of Absalom: "This Absolon, that jolif was and gay,/Gooth with a sencer on the haliday,/sensinge the wyves of the parish faste;/And many a lovely look on ... no wyf ne took he noon offringe;/For curteisye, he seyde he wolde noon."" (157) Going against the exact values he was supposed to uphold, Absalom wandered around the town staring at women. Then, under the false pretense of his "manners- (generosity), he would not accept any offering from...

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