They learn of Old John's preparations for the flood and laugh at his lunacy. Old John suffers a broken arm and the neighbor's stream out from their houses wondering at all the noise. Old John wakes and thinking that the flood has come, cuts the ropes with the ax, and the boats crash to the ground. He recovers in time to thrust the red-hot poker up the middle of Nicholas' arse. This time Nicholas decides to play a trick on Absalon, and he sticks his rear out of the window and farts in Absalon's face. He calls again to Alison saying that he has a golden ring for her and she can have it if she gives him one more kiss. He decides to return to obtain revenge, and with him now, he has a red-hot poker. Absalon fastidiously "kissed her naked arse, most savorously," but wonders "a woman hath no beard." He hears the two laughing and realizes his mistake. However, instead of her mouth, she extends her rear out of the window. Nicholas encourages Alison to get rid of Absalon by granting his request for a kiss. It is pitch black, and the pair of lovers are concerned that Absalon's noise will wake Old John. Alison and Nicholas descend to the bedroom and make love all night.Ībsalon has noticed that the Carpenter is not home and decides to serenade Alison at her window.
On the eve of the so-called flood, the three climb into the boats and Old John soon falls fast asleep. They must also have an ax ready to cut the ropes when the flood approaches. To survive, they must build and fasten three boats to the rafters and store them with provisions. Nicholas convinces Old John that a flood equal to that suffered by Noah in the Bible will visit the town. She resists his advances for fear of being discovered by her jealous husband, but the pair conspires together to play a trick on Old John.Īlison also has another admirer the effeminate Absalon, who swings the incense burner at the church on Sundays and cannot abide people who fart in public. He falls in love with the young Alison and soon makes his intentions known by grabbing her. Nicholas has a reputation for reading the stars and forecasting the advent of rain or drought. Also residing in the Carpenter's house is a young student named Nicholas, who rents a room. Old John, the Carpenter, is a very jealous man who has married an eighteen-year-old girl called Alison. The youngest is stabbed, and the other two are poisoned. The youngest of the three decide to poison the food he brings to the other two and keep the gold for himself. When he has gone, the two that are left decide that they will murder him when he returns and keep the gold for themselves. They draw straws to see who will go into town to obtain food, and the youngest is given this task.
It would be too dangerous to move the gold in the daytime so they will wait for nightfall. The three men go and find bags of gold beneath the tree, and they decide to keep this for themselves. The three men ask the old man if he has seen Death, and he responds that he was last seen under the tree at the end of the lane. He goes on to say that not even Death will take his life. He explains that he has been cursed to wander the earth until he can find a youth who will change places with him. On the way, they meet an extremely old man dressed in rags. The three drunken men decide to seek this thief out, and they travel to the next town in pursuit. He has killed many in the neighborhood recently. He responds by saying that it is a friend of the three men who was stabbed in the back by a thief called Death. On this particular day as the three men indulge in gambling and drunkenness, they hear a funeral passing outside the Inn. The tale is set in Flanders, and the Pardoner during the telling of the tale tends to drift from the plot and sermonize to the Pilgrims. This story concerns three young men who spend much of their time in revelry.
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