According to the pardoner, what is the theme of all his sermons?This is from the story "The Pardoner's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales.

According to the Pardoner, he always uses the same text
for his sermons (in a sermon the preacher is supposed to use some Biblical text -- he's
supposed to talk to the congregation about the meaning of the passage that he has
selected).  The Pardoner says that the text for his sermons is always the famous passage
that says that the love of money is the root of all evil (this is from 1 Timothy Chapter
6).  So presumably he is talking about how greed is
bad.

For I know all by rote that I
tell.
My theme is always one, and ever was;
Radix malorum est
cupiditas.

This is pretty ironic
because he himself is a pretty greedy man and pardoners as a group were known for being
pretty greedy.