Notes on Chaucer's Millers Tale, A 3216 and 3320
- Author / Editor
- Ross, Thomas W.
Notes on Chaucer's Millers Tale, A 3216 and 3320
- Published
- English Language Notes 13 (1976): 256-58.
- Description
- Nicholas' seduction of Alisoun is an impudent parody of the Annunciation, of which he sings in the "Angelus ad virginem." Absolon is clad "ful smal," i.e., in a tight-fitting garment, as a sign of his lechery and vanity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.