"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: