Scene: Before the west front of Canterbury Cathedral, gorgeously decorated with tapestries, hatchments, and cloth of gold. Grouped nearby are temporary booths of venders, gaily trimmed.
Many pilgrims are assembled; others keep arriving from different directions, talking, praying, and sight-seeing. At the Cathedral door a Priest blesses, with a sprengel, those who enter.
FIRST VENDER
Relics! Souvenirs!
SECOND VENDER
Blood of the blissful martyr!
A BLACK FRIAR
[To Bailey, the Host.]
A guide, Sir Hosteler?
HOST