They thought "here's a lot of gold that is to be divided equally among us three. Nevertheless, if I could shape things thus so that we shared it out- the two of us- wouldn't you take it as a friendly act?"(136). The men contrived a plan, it included them attacking there brother when he returned and kill him. While the two men were planning their attack, the other brother started to think "Lord, to think I might have all that treasure to myself alone!"(136). He went to the apothecary and bought some rat poison, claiming he had rats to kill. He filled three bottles with wine but two had poison in them. When he returned surely enough his two brothers attacked him and killed him. In rejoice they drank the wine, the poisoned wine. Soon they were dead on the ground. They found death under the tree. What would have happened if they were kind to the old man? Would they have found death? Would they have found gold under the tree? These are all things we will never know because they didn't respect the old man. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale" the elderly woman is respected but the knight doesn't thinks he receives a very good reward. .
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" is about a knight who is accused of raping a girl. He is sent to court, in front of the King and Queen. The King gave his Queen the power to let him live or die. She said "Yet you shall live if you can answer me: What is the thing that woman most desire?"(142). She gave him a year and a day to search for what women want. He asked, what seemed to him, as every woman in the country, but no one had a straight answer. He gave up and decided to go back to the Queen. On his way back "he saw a dance upon a leafy floor of four and twenty ladies, nay, and more."(144) He thought this could be it they could know what women want. But when the knight approached there only was one old woman, he was very polite and asked "Dear Mother alack the day! I am as good as dead if I can't say what thing it is that women most desire"(144).
