The Pardoner

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from his pardons. All the money he gets he seems to regard as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of theirs, killed by somebody named Death. The three men decide to find this Death and exact revenge for their friend. While looking, they come across an old man. The man, commenting on how old he is, states that not even Death will take his life. The three ask the old man if he knows where death is, and the old man directs them to a tree at the end of the street. The three men run to the end of the street, where they find a treasure underneath the tree. They agree to wait until dark to move it, and one of them goes back to town for food and wine to hold them over. While he is gone, the other two plot to stab him when he returns, thereby getting a larger ...

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