Check my answer! 13. from the canterbury tales, "the pardoner's tale" read this excerpt from "the pardoner's tale" in which the old man is speaking to the rioters. ""well, sirs,' he said, 'if it be your design/to find out death, turn this corrked way/towards that grove, i love him here/under a tree, and there youll find him waiting" what is he doing to telling them something that he himself knows not true? a) he is trying to get them to find death, so they will die. b) he is encouraging them to drive death from the region. c) he is mocking their belief that death is a literal person. d) he is trying to keep them from learning that they are already dead. my answer