The Seven Deadly Sins In A Pardoner's Tale

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There are seven deadly sins. There are three main one’s that apply to pardoner’s tale and they are pride,envy and greed.They are used by the three men that were drunk and then went to go look for death after they have heard the news that their friend has died. first of these three men are not your good people they were very bad they were filled with sins. would be drunk all the time and would be swearing. So they go look for death and they don’t find it and when they don’t they see a old man and they treat him very rudely and he tells them to go up the road under a oak tree and they will find death.

When they get there they are surprised by what they find. They find gold under the oak tree. There first thought is to get the gold and divide

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