The Miller's Tale

The Miller told the story of a student who's name was Nicholas, who persuaded his landlord's young wife, Alisoun, to spend the night with him. He persuades his landlord, John, that the 2nd flood is coming, and tricks him into spending the night in a tub hanging loose from the ceiling of his barn. Absolon, a young parish clerk who is also in love with Alisoun, is now outside the window of the room where Nicholas and Alisoun were lieing together. When Absolon begs Alisoun for a kiss, she sticks her rear end out the window in the dark and lets him kiss it. Absolon runs and gets a red-hot poker, returns to the window, and asks for another kiss. and when Nicholas puts his bottom out the window and farts Absolon had branded him on his booty. Nicholas's cries for water make the carpenter think that the flood has come, so the carpenter cuts the rope connecting his tub to the ceiling, falls down, and breaks his arm.