CHAUCER

[Reading.]

“P.S. Let not the under-side be toasted as brown as the upper.

P.P.S. The milk should not be skimmed.”

[Laughs to himself.]

“A little cup of milk and wastel-bread!”

Haha!—A gentle heroine for a tale!

My heart is lost.

[To Joannes, who is trembling at the Miller.]

What, fellow, art thou scared?