What do these lines from stanza 5 reveal about the Pardoner? I stand up like a scholar in a pulpit,
And when the ignorant people all do sit,
I preach, as you have heard me say before,
And tell a hundred false japes, less or more.
O A The Pardoner is an unhappy person
B. The Pardoner dislikes lying to his congregants.
O C. The Pardoner is condescending.
D. The Pardoner thinks it's futile to try to preach to people who are too simple to understand his sermons.