Ignoring his warning, they advance, and underneath the tree, they find instead eight bags of gold coins with no owner.

They decide that they must bring it under the cover of night, and so someone must run into town to fetch bread and wine in the meantime. The youngest one runs off toward town. As soon he is gone, they decide to kill their youngest friend when he returns from town to have a greater share of the wealth. Back in the town, the youngest vagrant is having similar thoughts. He goes to the apothecary and buys the strongest poison available; this he puts into two bottles of wine, leaving the third pure for himself. He returns to the tree, but the other rioters leap out and kill him.
They sit down to drink and celebrate, and they pick up a poisoned bottle. Within minutes, they lie dead with their friend.

The Pardoner’s tale shows the disastrous effects of greed. The list of vices in his diatribe at the beginning – gluttony, drunkenness, gambling and swearing – are all faults that he himself has displayed in his tale or proudly claimed to have anyway. The Wife of Bath‘s Tale
The Wife of Bath begins the Prologue to her tale by establishing her authority on marriage. She has been married five times. Of course, many people have criticized her, most on the basis that Christ went on only once to the wedding. She admits that many great Fathers of the Church have proclaimed the importance of virginity. But, she reasons, even if virginity is, someone must be procreating to make more virgins. Of her five husbands, three have been „good“ and two have been „bad“. The first three were good mostly because they were rich and old, she admits. Her fourth husabnd was a reveler and he died when she was on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Of her fifth husband, she has more to say. This husband was different because she married him for love, not for money. It was at her fourth husband‘s funeral that she became attracted to her fifth husband.
One evening, out of frustration, she tears a page out of his book, and he repays her by striking her on the ear. She falls down and pretends to be dead; he bends down to check on her, but she smacks him in the head. They finally manage a truce, in which he hands over all his meager estate to her, and she acts kindly and loving toward him. At last, having chronicled all her marriages, the Wife of Bath prepares to tell her story. Her Prologue, which is in fact longer than her tale, is basically her autobiography.
The Wife of Bath‘s tale is set in the days of King Arthur, who had in his court a young knight. One day, this bachelor came upon a young beatiful young maid on the road, and in his lust, he raped her. The court scandalized and found him deserving of death by beheading.