| | Help Symkyn for the fals clerkis fighte | |
| | This Iohn stert vp as faste as he myghte | |
| | And graspid be the wallis to and fro | |
| | To fynde astaf and she stert vp also | |
| 375 | And knew the eftes bet than did this Iohn | |
| | And by the wall astaf she took anon | |
| | And saw a litil shymerynge of a light | |
| | For at an hole yn shon the mone light | |
| | And by that light she saw hem bothe two | |
| 380 | But sikirly she nyste who was who | |
| | And as she saw a whit thing in her ye | |
| | An whan she gan this white thing aspie | |
| | She wende the clerk hadde werid a volupier | |
| | And with the staf she drew ay nere and nere | |
| 385 | And wende haue hit this aleyn at the ful | |
| | And smoot the myller on the pilid skul | |
| | And doun he goth and cryde harow I dye | |
| | The clerkis bete hym wel and let hym lye | |
| | And greyden hem and eek hir hors anon | |
| 390 | And eke hir mele and on her wey they goon | |
| | And atte mylle dore yet he took his cake | |
| | Of half a busshel flour wel I bake | |
| | Thus is the proud myller wel I bete | |
| | And hath lost the gryndynge of the whete | |
| 395 | And payd for the soper eueridell | |
| | Of aleyn and of Iohn that beet hym well | |
| | His wyf is swyuyd and his doughtir als | |
| | Lo suche it is a myllere to be fals | |
| | And therto this prouerbe is sayd ful soth | |
