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?