The Host then asks the Pardoner to "telle us som myrthe or japes right anon". Myn herte is lost for pitee of this mayde. Or elles a draughte of moyste and corny ale, The invitation for the Pardoner to tell a tale comes after the Host declares his dissatisfaction with the depressing tale, and declares: The Physician's Tale is a harrowing tale about a judge who plots with a "churl " to abduct a beautiful young woman rather than allow her to be raped, her father beheads her. In the order of The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale are preceded by The Physician's Tale. The tale and prologue are primarily concerned with what the Pardoner says is his "theme": Radix malorum est cupiditas ("Greed is the root of evils"). When they arrive they discover a hoard of treasure and decide to stay with it until nightfall and carry it away under the cover of night. Setting out to kill Death, three young men encounter an Old Man who says they will find him under a nearby tree. The Pardoner initiates his Prologue-briefly accounting his methods of swindling people-and then proceeds to tell a moral tale. In the order of the Tales, it comes after The Physician's Tale and before The Shipman's Tale it is prompted by the Host's desire to hear something positive after the physician's depressing tale. "The Pardoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Pardoner, as depicted by William Blake in The Canterbury Pilgrims (1810)
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