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Drynken- Drunken

Garleck- Garlic

Oynons- Onions

Aferd- Affraid

Latyn- Latin

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Paraphrase:
"There was a Summoner with us at that Inn, His face on fire, like a cherubin, For he had carbuncles. His eyes were narrow, He was as hot and lecherous as a sparrow.

Black scabby brows he had, and a thin beard. Children were afraid when he appeared. No quicksilver, lead ointment, tartar creams, No brimstone, no boracic, so it seems, Could make a salve that had the power to bite,

Clean up or cure his whelks of knobby white Or purge the pimples sitting on his cheeks. Garlic he loved, and onions too, and leeks, And drinking strong red wine till all was hazy. Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy,

655 And wouldn’t speak a word except in Latin When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in; He only had a few, say two or three, That he had mugged up out of some decree;"

Middle English;

"A somonour was ther with us in that place, That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, For saucefleem he was, with eyen narwe. As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, With scalled browes blake and piled berd. Of his visage children were aferd. Ther nas quyk-silver, lytarge, ne brymstoon, Boras, ceruce, ne oille of tartre noon; Ne oynement that wolde clense and byte, That hym myghte help en of his whelkes white, Nor of the knobbes sittynge on his chekes. Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes, And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood; Thanne wolde he speke and crie as he were wood. And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn, Thanne wolde he speke no word but latyn. A fewe termes hadde he, two or thre, That he had lerned out of som decree --"

The Summoner has a red face like fiery hell with abscesses larger than boils, usually with one or more openings draining pus down his face, His eyes like little slits providing hot sexual stares like a sparrow. With black brittle eyebrows and a straggly beard, his appearance scared the children. No amount of time or money could fix the white abscesses on his face. He was a drunk, with lack of knowledge, and he would spit random Latin words he memorized to sound intelligent.

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Chaucer clearly does not like Summoners, he made the character ugly, and uneducated. Chaucer has a clear problem with the Church, and the fact that the summoner is depicted as an ugly uneducated man gives insight into a little bit of how Chaucer feels toward figures of the Church. Chaucer put the Summoner in the book to be used as a sort of punching bag for Chaucer's personal problems toward the Church. He did it this way so he will not lose social status in the church community himself and receive ridicule but to release his point of view and frustration on the matter.

Modern

"There was a Summoner with us at that Inn, His face on fire, like a cherubin, For he had carbuncles. His eyes were narrow, He was as hot and lecherous as a sparrow.

Black scabby brows he had, and a thin beard. Children were afraid when he appeared. No quicksilver, lead ointment, tartar creams, No brimstone, no boracic, so it seems, Could make a salve that had the power to bite,Clean up or cure his whelks of knobby white Or purge the pimples sitting on his cheeks" (642-51)
Middle English "A somonour was ther with us in that place, That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, For saucefleem he was, with eyen narwe. As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, With scalled browes blake and piled berd. Of his visage children were aferd. Ther nas quyk-silver, lytarge, ne brymstoon, Boras, ceruce, ne oille of tartre noon; Ne oynement that wolde clense and byte, That hym myghte help en of his whelkes white, Nor of the knobbes sittynge on his chekes" (642-651)

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The summoner wears very thick clothes and iron pads on his legs since he rides horseback all day. Being that sin is not happening all the time he finds himself bored and just wondering around on his horse. He has good easy days, but they can get very hot from being in the sun all the time.Once he gets off work he gets drunk with the pay of alcohol he has received that day from sinners and heads home on his horse.

http://shscanterburytales.wikispaces.com/The+Summoner

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Specific words to understand the Summoner

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Specific words to understand the Summoner

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Nothing- This word adds insight to what the summoner is depicted to offer society. He is made out to be very unintelligent and uneducated.

Nobel- This describes the summoner as a man not trying to get you in trouble a very honorable man. He takes his job seriously, but also will let you off for something in return.

Kind- He often lets off sinners in exchange for quality wine, that is an act of kindness but it also contradicts his ugly appearance.

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The summoner was not very smart which is supported with these text stating,

"When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in; He only had a few, say two or three, That he had mugged up out of some decree;" (656-58)

When the Summoner gets drunk he ramble's random words in Latin that he hadmemorized to sound educated.

"But had you tried to test his wits and grope
For more, you’d have found nothing in the bag" (662-65)

This quote suggest that the Summoner has nothing to offer when it comes to solving problems and using quick thinking. He has slow responses and unintelligent contribution to educated conversations.

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The summoner is described as a hideous sight to see

"His face on fire, like a cherubin, For he had carbuncles. His eyes were narrow, He was as hot and lecherous as a sparrow.

Black scabby brows he had, and a thin beard. Children were afraid when he appeared" (642-46)

The Summoners appearance was so awful he scared children, he is discribed as ugly with a face full of pimples.

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A modern day occupation that corresponds to a Summoner

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A modern day occupation that corresponds to a Summoner

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In the School it corresponds with a Guidance Councillier because they call you up when you have miss behaved and reprimand you.But in the modern world a Summoner corresponds to a Bounty Hunter. They collect people who have skipped bail and court dates and they bring them for a fair trial against the courts.

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Weather or not the Summoner has a family or a home life is not included in the Prologue.Where the Summoner came from, a little background is not mentioned either. A very important thing you might want to know about a Summoner is his income and status in the Church and neither of these were included.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/characters.html

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The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer

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The summoners social status was very middle class,to high class.He lacked presentation and cleanliness, his appearance scared children but his job puts him in good light with the Church. He also knows every ones secrets and business, and that makes him able to do his job so well. Not very many people like him but his afiliation with the church and his knowledge give him a suitable social status.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_summoner_in_the_Canterbury_Tales&altQ=Who_is_the_summoner_in_canterbury_tales

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What does being a Summoner tell us about this time period?

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What does being a Summoner tell us about this time period?

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This tells us that people in this time period were very religious and believed in good and evil and took their religion very seriously. To the point that they created Jobs to watch each other and scold each other if they were caught sinning. This quote is an example of the Summoner knowing all the peoples business because he rides around and watches them.

"He knew their secrets, they did what he said. He wore a garland set upon his head

Outside an ale-house, and he had a cake, A round one, which it was his joke to wield As if it were intended for a shield" (683-88)

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/themes.html

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The summoners job is to call people to the church. He watches for people who are sinning and he summons them to the Church. He then requires them to pay by giving him quality wine."He was a noble varlet and a kind one, You’d meet none better if you went to find one. Why, he’d allow—just for a quart of wine— Any good lad to keep a concubine" (665-68).

http://www.shmoop.com/canterbury-tales-prologue/the-summoner.html