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The General Prologue, The Miller's Portrait
Read by Alfred Davidas edited by E. Talbot Donaldson
in The Norton Anthology of English Literature
(ll. 547-559 in Norton; ll. 545-557 in The Riverside Chaucer)
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Ful big he was of brawn and eek of bones-- That preved wel, for over al ther he cam At wrastling he wolde have alway the ram. He was short-shuldred, brood, a thikke knarre. Ther was no dore that he nolde heve of harre, Or breke it at a renning with his heed. His beerd as any sowe or fox was reed, And therto brood, as though it were a spade; Upon the cop right of his nose he hadde A werte, and theron stood a tuft of heres Rede as the bristles of a sowes eres. His nosethirles blake were and wide. |
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