Feared o’ the dark!

NED

[Goes whimpering.]

’E’ll drub me wi’ his thigh-bones.

[Opening the door, he feels his way down. As the door
closes, a faint scream comes from within.]

CHAUCER

[To Prioress, who, preceded by her three priests, is about to go out.]

Madame, goes she to chapel?

PRIORESS

Paul, Joannes,