I’ll eat it first. Oh, Lord! Lord, now who comes?
[Enter, left back, the Canon’s Yeoman and the Carpenter;
after whom the Wife of Bath, disguised.]
ALISOUN
Good fellow, you there, can you propagate
Unto my vision—a young prioress?
CANON’S YEOMAN
No, sir, I cannot.
ALISOUN
Or a marchioness?
[The pilgrims pass on.]