The pardoner's tale (canterbury tales )
"The Pardoner's Tale" (Middle English: The Pardoners Tale) is one of the The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The story is in the form of an exemplum: the Pardoner first explains the theme he will address, then tells his story and finally draws the conclusion he had already mentioned in his introduction.
The old man mirrors the hypocrisy of the Narrator himself in the way he deceives the three men.
The Pardoner’s work is also based on deceit, selling relics to the unwary.