Notes on Chaucer's Millers Tale, A 3216 and 3320

Author / Editor
Ross, Thomas W.

Title
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.