The Canterbury Tales
In line 660, the Pardoner begins his anecdotal story. When the story opens, what are the rioters doing and what captures their attention?
It's over the Pardanor's Tale
It's over the Pardanor's Tale
The three drunkards were in a tavern one night, and, hearing a bell ring, looked outside to see men carrying a corpse to its grave. One of them called to his slave to go and ask who the corpse was: he was told by a boy that the corpse was an old fellow whose heart was smashed in two by a secret thief called Death.