The Miller's Prologue. Heere folwen the wordes betwene the Hoost and the Millere Here follow the words between the Host and the Miller.

The Miller's Tale is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1380s–1390s), told by the drunken miller Robin to "quite" (a Middle English term ...

9 сент. 2024 г. · This bawdy story of lust and revenge is told by a drunken, churlish Miller. Alison, the young wife of a carpenter, takes their boarder Nicholas ...

Short Summary: John, a rich old carpenter of Oxford has a young wife, the eighteen-year-old Alisoun, whom he guards carefully, for he is very jealous. He has a ...

In Oxford there lives a rich old carpenter. Boarding at his house is a poor young scholar, Nicholas, who is very learned in astrology and can also sing well ...

The Miller insists on proceeding with his tale. He points out that he is married himself, but doesn't worry whether some other man is sleeping with his wife.

Here, Chaucer inserts a lapse into the lines to remind the reader that this tale is told within a frame story. While the Knight repeatedly inserted himself into ...

Chaucer used no known source for The Miller's Tale, but in general outline, it is one of the most common earthy folk tales, or fabliaux. The story of the ...

Heere bigynneth the Millere his Tale ; Which that he lovede moore than his lyf; ; 115, Of eighteteene yeer she was of age. ; Jalous he was, and heeld hire narwe in ...

The Miller's Tale is a bawdy retelling of the Knight's Tale and the Reeve's Tale (which follows) features an insulting story about a miller.