The summoner's job was to find those who were not living a “holy” life and bring them to court. This “ungodly” life that they would lure people into involved things like adultery. The narrator tells the reader about one of this summoner's acts: "A good friend to have his concubine/At twelve months and excuse him for eating everything;/You can pull a finch," these lines tell the reader that the summoner was going sleeping with girls, which he arrested people for. Chaucer uses the ugliness of the summoner to show the hypocrisy of the church. The things that members would condemn would be the things that would be