ng is hatred: to attack and defame someone who has dared insult him.
             The Pardoner explains that avarice is his own vice and at the same time the vice he preaches against with such powerful effect may cause people to repent of their avarice sincerely. Chaucer portrays him as being so cold hearted that he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. This can be seen in the following lines 447 to 453:
             I wol none of the Apostles countrefete;
             I wol have moneye, wolle, chese, and whete,
             Al were it yeven o fthe povereste page,
             Or of the povereste widwe in a village,
             Al sholde hir children sterve for famyne.
             Nay, I wol drynke licour of the vyne
             And have a joly wenche in every toun.
             As the Tale begins, he preaches not only against love of money as such, but attacks all the 'tavern sins' of drunkenness, swearing, and gambling. He attempts to illustrate that the end of such deeds is death.
             The pardoner makes reference to death in line 491 when he says "To sleen the Baptist John, ful giltelees." There he
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