He seyde, "Thou John, thou swynes-heed, awak, For Cristes saule, and heer a noble game. For by that lord that called is Seint Jame, As I have thries in this shorte nyght Swyved the milleres doghter bolt upright, Whil thow hast, as a coward, been agast."

He seyde, "Thou John, thou swynes-heed, awak,
For Cristes saule, and heer a noble game.
For by that lord that called is Seint Jame,
As I have thries in this shorte nyght
Swyved the milleres doghter bolt upright,
Whil thow hast, as a coward, been agast."

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Reeve’s Tale. Alan goes to wake John to boast to him about having had sex with the miller’s daughter three times during the night while his friend was a terrified coward. But he has mistakingly gotten into the wrong bed, beside the furious miller, who hears all this.

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