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)