- Is a “limiter” (gets his money by begging, and has a certain district that he is allowed to beg in) This suggests he should be very poor
- “He’d fixed up many a marriage, giving each of his young women what he could afford her” (he gets women pregnant and then marries them off)
- He lies, and says he has a “special license from the Pope” to hear confessions (he has no such license, but uses it to get money from people)
- He keeps “pins for curls, and pocket-knives to give to pretty girls” (he is supposed to be chaste)
- He frequently goes to taverns and bars
- “It was not fitting with the dignity of his position, dealing with a scum of wretched lepers; nothing good can come /Of commerce with such slum-and-gutter dwellers” (He refuses to interact with beggars and lepers , who he should be helping, and he instead prefers the company of rich peopleHe begs and takes money from even the poorest people, not just the rich
- He wears expensive clothing (a thick, expensive cape) when his clothes should be plain and inexpensive (He dresses more like a doctor or the Pope than a poor servant of the church)
- He plays the harp, and his name is Hubert
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