This play is an INTERLUDE very few of which survive to the modern day They were oneact farces where the moral was secondary to the lively dialogue among the characters They were a form of which arose in the great houses during the first part of the sixteenth 16th century This particular interlude is a dialogue among the Palmer a pilgrims were called since they carried palm leaves back from the Holy Land and a Pardoner a cleric who was empowered to offer forgiveness of sins a Pothecary a druggist and primitive doctor and a Pedlar a wandering minor merchant The first three were arguing who had the most to do with getting people into Heaven To decide who was the best the Pedlar suggested a contest It isnt taken terribly seriously once the Pedlar judges but the results are hilarious The little play concludes that judgment should be left in the hands of the Church Universal so this zapisywane przed Henryk VIII podzielić z Rome