CHAUCER

You, marchioness! What does this mean?

ALISOUN

[Stripping off her beard and wig—her own hair falling over her shoulders—snatches a warming-pan from the chimney, and confronts Chaucer.]

Sweet Geoffrey,

It means this pan shall warm our wedding sheets.

MILLER

What devil!

CHAUCER

Alisoun!—My bet is lost.