Which of the following lines best presents the dominant moral of "the monk's tale?
a. whom fortune held so high in majesty, / how bitterly should we lament thy pain
b. when fortune would elect / to trick a man, she plots his overthrow / by such a means as he would lest expect
c. those who wish more, and on a robler scale, / should turn and read the great italian poet /dante by name;
d. he swore to sin no more. until the hour / of death when at last he was interred, / he recognized god's mercy and his poewer