This Nicholas anon let fle a fart
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent
That with the strook he was almoost yblent
And he was redy with his iren hoot
And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot
—from Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale,” the episode in which Absalom gets his revenge on Nicholas for farting as loud as a “thonder-dent” in his face, by branding his arse (“ers”) with a hot iron.
This Nicholas anon let fle a fart
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent
That with the strook he was almoost yblent
And he was redy with his iren hoot
And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot
—from Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale,” the episode in which Absalom gets his revenge on Nicholas for farting as loud as a “thonder-dent” in his face, by branding his arse (“ers”) with a hot iron.