| 525 | Hym wolde he snybbe sharply for the nonys | |
| | A better preest I trow nowhere non is | |
| | He waited aftir no pompe ne reuerence | |
| | Ne hadde no spiced conscience | |
| | But cristis lore and his apostelis twelue | |
| 530 | He taughte but first he folowed hym selue | |
| | W | ith him ther was a polowmā was his broder | |
| | That hadde led of dung many a fother | |
| | A trewe swynker and a good was he | |
| | Leuynge in pees and parfit charite | |
| 535 | God loued he best with al his herte | |
| | At alle tymes they he gamed or smerte | |
| | And than his neyghebour right as hym self | |
| | He wolde thresshe and therto digge and delf | |
| | For cristis sake for euery poure wight | |
| 540 | Withoute hire if it lay in his myght | |
| | His tithes payde he bothe faire and wel | |
| | Of his propir swynk and his catel | |
| | In a tabard he rood vp on a mere | |
| | There was also a reue and eek a Millere | |
| 545 | A somp nour and a pardoner also | |
| | A Mancipill and my self ther was no mo | |
| | T | He millere was a stout carle for the nonys | |
| | Ful big he was of braun and bonys | |
| | That proued wel for euer there he cam | |
| 550 | At wrastlynge alwey he wolde haue the ram | |
| | He was short shuldred a thicke quarre | |
| | Ther was no dore that he nolde heue of the barre | |
| | Or breke it at rennynge with his hed | |
