The Miller’s Tale

The Miller’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This bawdy story of lust and revenge is told by a drunken, churlish Miller. Alison, the young wife of a carpenter, takes their boarder Nicholas as her lover. When Nicholas convinces the carpenter that Noah’s flood is about to recur, the unwitting husband suspends three tubs from the rafters to serve as lifeboats and uses one for his bed. Alison...