Chaucer's The Miller's Tale

In Chaucer's The Miller's Tale, we encounter a carpenter named John and his wife Alison. Nicholas is a clerk who becomes a tenant in John and Alison's home. When John must leave town for work, he supplies his room with food and pretends to fall into a trance for days. When a servant breaks into his room, John maintains that he has had a vision that God will send a second flood on the magnitude of the one survived by Noah. John prepares bread kneading tubs so he and Alison and Nicholas can float on the waters when they come. After he falls asleep, Nicholas and Alison amuse each other in a frolicking manner. Absolon comes to the window to woo Alison, but he kisses her rump in his haste. When he comes back, Nicholas puts his rump in the window but is

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