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Answer:
The old man calls 'Death' his mother and the earth his 'mother's gate.'
The ominous words spoken by the old man in lines 138-148 are 'Being now young, would have another do /When you are old’—if you should live till then.'
The instruction that the old man gave to three young rioteers was that they will find the Death up at the crooked way under an oak tree.
Explanation:
The Pardoner's Tale' is one of the tales from The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale is about that greed can lead a person to it's own demise.
In lines 108-166, the three rioteers encounter with an old man and enquire him where they can find the Death, to which the old man guides them to the foot of an oak tree.
In lines 124-137, while speaking to the three rioteers, the old man asserts that he is still alive because he did not find any young man who could exchange his youth with his old age. He says that he had even knocked at the door of his mother's gate to allow him to come in, but was refused. The old man in these lines is referring to the Death as his mother and the earth as mother's gate.
The ominous words spoken by the old man in lines 138-148 is when he warns the three young rioteers that they should not think of harming an old man because they, too,will come to that age, adding '...—if you should live till then.' These words are ominous as they in a way speaks of their fate.
The old man instructs the three rioteers in lines 149-166 by saying that they will find the Death at the foot of an oak tree. The old man guides them that they need to turn up to the crooked way and in the thicket they will find an oak tree, under which the old man has left the Death that morning.
