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Main Table of Contents The Canterbury Tales

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Middle-english hypertext

• 001-042: The Pardoner's Introduction
• 043-176: The Pardoner's Prologue
• 177-682: The Pardoner's Tale

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• 001-033: The Host comments on the Physician's tale
• 034-042: The Pardoner shows some reluctance when asked to tell a tale

 The Pardoner's Prologue

• 043-048: The theme of the Pardoner
• 049-079: The Pardoner explains his tools and trade
• 080-102: The Pardoner's core business: to absolve people by authority
• 103-136: How the Pardoner earns his money
• 137-148: The Pardoner repeats his theme
• 149-176: The Pardoner rejects personal austerity and frugality

 The Pardoner's Tale

• 177-198: About a group of party animals
• 199-218: About the risks of drinking
• 219-262: A sermon on gluttony
• 263-286: A sermon on drunkenness
• 287-292: A hymn to abstinence and prayer
• 293-316: Biblical examples on drunkenness
• 317-334: An examplary story about Chilon
• 335-342: An examplary story about king Demetrius
• 343-374: A sermon on swearing
• 375-405: Three men hear about the killings of Death
• 406-424: The three men decide to stop and kill Death
• 425-463: The three men meet a strange old man
• 464-473: The three men urge the old man to tell where to find Death
• 474-490: The way to Death and eight bushels full of gold
• 491-515: An agreement on the division of the treasure between three men
• 516-550: An agreement on the division of the treasure between two men
• 551-572: The third man agrees with himself how to divide the treasure
• 573-592: The third man returns to his two friends
• 593-602: The three men find Death
• 603-617: The Pardoner elaborates the moral of his tale
• 618-632: The Pardoner explains the purpose of his pardons
• 633-659: The Pardoner offers his indulgences for sale
• 660-682: The words between the Host, the Pardoner and the Knight

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