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"The Miller's Tale" (Middle English: The Milleres Tale) is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1380s–1390s), told by the drunken miller Robin to "quite" (a Middle English term meaning requite or pay back, in both good and negative ways) "The Knight's Tale". The Miller's Prologue is the first "quite" that occurs in the tales.
The Knight's Tale The Miller's Tale The Reeve's Tale The Cook's Tale. Fragment II: B 1: The Man of Law's Tale: Fragment III: D The Wife of Bath's Tale The Friar's Tale The Summoner's Tale: Fragment IV: E The Clerk's Tale The Merchant's Tale: Fragment V: F The Squire's Tale The Franklin's Tale: Fragment VI: C The Physician's Tale The Pardoner's ...
Symkyn is a miller who lives in Trumpington near Cambridge and who takes wheat and meal brought to him for grinding. Symkyn is also a bully who cheats his customers with the help of his "golden thumb" (i.e. using his thumb to tip the scale in his favour and overcharge) and claims to be a Master with a sword and dagger and knives (cf. the coulter in "The Miller's Tale").
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, mostly in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer chiefly from 1387 to 1400. They are held together in a frame story of a pilgrimage on which each member of the group is to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back.
Fourth Tale (The Miller's Tale): Chaucer reads a funny story from the Decameron. His wife scolds him for wasting time so he sits down to write his own story. This is the Miller's Tale. Nicholas, a young student, lives next door to an overweight, elderly carpenter named John.
The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered as characters of the framing narrative the Host, who travels with the pilgrims, the Canon, and the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the teller of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is in turn ...
Candice Miller is breaking her silence on the death of her late husband, Brandon Miller, who died by suicide in July. "Candice is devastated by the loss of her soul mate, and her two young ...
The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.