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Here, Peace responds to Conscience’s call for his cousin, Contrition, explaining that Friar Flatterer has drugged the Christian community. The significance in this passage is that Contrition has been drugged and now exists in a dazed, lifeless state—meaning that in the Christian community, people no longer feel sincere guilt for their sins, despite contrition being a crucial element to the sacrament of penance. The fact that it is Friar Flatterer who administers this “drugged drink” clearly points to the clergy as being the source of this moral lapse, as they lead astray those who depend on their religious guidance.
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