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For which the warden chided him as he dared, yet thereof cared the miller no longer a tare; He talked loud, and swore it was once no longer so. Then have been there younger terrible students Who dwelt during this corridor of which I converse. Headstrong they have been, and in excessive spirits, And, just for their mirth and revelry, They pestered the warden to provide them depart yet a short while to visit the mill and spot wheat flooring; And boldly, they dare probability their necks, The miller usually are not thieve from them part a peck Of wheat via sleight, nor through strength them rob; and eventually the warden gave them depart. John was once named one, and Allen named the opposite; of 1 city have been they born, that was once referred to as Strother, some distance within the north, i can't inform the place. This Allen made prepared all his apparatus, And on a horse the sack of grain he solid anon. Forth went Allen the student, and likewise John, With sturdy swords and shields by way of their aspects. John knew the best way, they wanted no advisor, And on the mill the sack adown he laid it. Allen spoke first, “All hail, Simon, in religion! How fares your daughter and your spouse? ” “Allen, welcome,” stated Simkin, “by my existence! And John additionally, how now, what do you right here? ” “Simon,” stated John, “by God, who has no peer, He who has no servant should still serve himself, in any other case he's a idiot, as students say. Our manciple, I anticipate, he'll be useless, So pain the molars in his head. And hence am I come, and in addition Allen, To grind our wheat and hold it domestic back; I pray you care for us quickly as you'll. ” “It will be done,” stated Simkin, “by my religion. what is going to you do whereas it really is in hand? ” “By god, correct by way of the hoper wil I stande,” Quod John, “and se how that the corn gasoline in; but saugh I by no means, by way of my fader relatives, How that the hoper wagges til and fra. ” Aleyn answerde, “John, and wiltow swa, Than wil I be bynethe, via my croun, And se how that the mele falles doun In-to the trough; that sal be my disport. For John, in religion, i'll been of your type; I is as ille a miller as are ye. ” This miller smyled of hir nycetee, And thoghte, “al this nis doon yet for a wyle; They wene that no guy could hem bigyle; yet, through my thrift, but shal I blere hir ye For al the sleighte in hir philosophye. The extra queynte crekes that they make, The extra wol I stele whan I take. In stede of flour, but wol I yeve hem bren. ‘The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men,’ As whylom to the wolf therefore spak the mare; Of al hir paintings I counte noght a tare. ” Out on the dore he gooth ful prively, Whan that he saugh his tyme, softely; He loketh up and doun til he hath founde The clerkes hors, ther because it stood y-bounde Bihinde the mille, below a levesel; And to the hors he gooth him faire and wel; He strepeth of the brydel correct anon. And whan the hors was once bathrooms, he ginneth gon towards the fen, ther broad mares renne, Forth with wehee, thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne. This miller smyled of hir nycetee, yet dooth his word, and with the clerkes pleyde, Til that hir corn used to be faire and wel y-grounde. And whan the mele is sakked and y-bounde, This John goth out and fynt his hors away, And gan to crye “harrow” and “weylaway!