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In this passage, the character of Five-wits extols the virtues of the clergy and lavishes praises on priests, claiming that they are more powerful even than angels in Heaven (an arguably sacrilegious claim since priests are human and angels are divine). If Five-wits is meant to personify the five senses—and, by extension, the “common sense” of mankind collectively—perhaps his speech is meant to be taken with a grain of salt rather than at face value. In other words, this passage may be the author’s way of subtly indicating that people place too much faith in the Church—but it may also…