"The Miller's Tale" is a churlish story in The Cantebury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer with themes of betrayal, revenge, lust and farce. To spend the night with Alisoun, Nicholas tells her husband John that God will again flood the earth and that he must sleep in a tub. Absolon, also interested in Alisoun, is tricked into kissing Alisoun's arse through a window. Attempting revenge, Absolon sticks a poker into Nicholas' arse. John, hearing the commotion, thinks the flood has come and so cuts the rope, falls and breaks his arm.
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