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This tale is done, and God save all this company! Heere endeth the Millere his Tale. [Here ends the Miller's Tale] The Miller's Prologue Heere folwen the wordes betwene the Hoost and the Millere Here follow the words between the Host and the Miller.
Summary: Prologue to the Miller’s Tale. The pilgrims applaud the Knights Tale, and the pleased Host asks the Monk to match it. Before the Monk can utter a word, however, the Miller interrupts. Drunk and belligerent, he promises that he has a “noble” tale that will repay the Knight’s (3126).
Here at the beginning of the tales, we see this relationship most clearly. The Knight's Tale and The Miller's Tale involve a three-way love triangle. In both tales, two men are seeking the love (or possession) of the same woman. In both tales, the woman remains the more-or-less passive bystander while the men struggle for her.
The Miller’s Prologue. The Canterbury Tales: The Miller’s Tale Summary & Analysis. Next. The Reeve’s Prologue. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. 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 Canterbury Tales: The Miller’s Prologue Summary & Analysis. Next. The Miller’s Tale. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. All the pilgrims agree that the Knight has told an excellent, noble story. The Host turns to the Monk for the next tale, but the Miller, who is drunk, interrupts and declares that he will “quite” the Knight’s tale.
The Miller’s tale, like the later Merchant’s tale featuring the ageing husband January and his young wife (who also, like Alison, cheats on her husband), shines a light on a time when men with financial means could marry women for their beauty, while the women had to marry older men for their money.
THE MILLER'S PROLOGUE. Here folwen the wordes bitwene the Host and the Millere. 3109Whan that the Knight had thus his tale y-told, 3110In al the route, routenas ther yong ne old. 3111That he ne seyde it was a noble storie, 3112And worthy for to drawen to memorie; 3113And namely the gentils, gentilseverichoon.
