"The Summoner's Tale" is one of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's collection known as The Canterbury Tales. It features a summoner, a church official who is responsible for summoning sinners to ecclesiastical court. The tale revolves around the summoner's encounter with a clever friar who outsmarts him, highlighting themes of corruption and hypocrisy within the church. In the story, the friar tells a tale about a wealthy man who, on his deathbed, wishes to donate his wealth to the church. The friar cleverly manipulates the situation to gain money for himself, illustrating the moral complexities and the often self-serving nature of religious figures during the medieval period.