Warner Anderson - The Pardoner's Tale
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- It's of three rioters I have to tellWho, long before the morning service bell, Were sitting in a tavern for a drink (1-3)
- "Go and find... Whose corpse is in that coffin"
- "Sir, no need, I promise you; two hours before you came here i was told, he was a friend of yours in day of old, And Suddenly, last night, the man was slain." (10-13)
- And as they sat, they heard the hand-bell clinkBefore a coffin going to the grave. (4-5)
- Well sirs, if it be your design to find out Death, turn up this crooked way Toward the grove, I left him there today Under a tree, and there you'll find him waiting. (102-105)
- Then an old man enters the tavern and tells the men about Death, the thing that killed the man
- At once the three young rioters began To run, and reached the tree, and there they found A pile of golden florins on the ground (111-113)
- "Trust me, you needn't doubt My word." (164)
- When the youngest went into town, the 2 other men plan to kill him and split the gold. Little did they know, the youngest plans to kill them both to have the gold to himself
- When the boy returned with poisoned wine, the two men killed him. To celebrate they drank the wine and ended up dying as well
- He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both. (229-231)
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