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... con- ventions: the social pride of the Symkyn family and the atmosphere of game and contest which permeates the tale. Symkyn is guilty of a number of sins, to be sure, but (as is often noted) the tale centers on his pride, which leads not only to his gro- tesque swaggering through...

... with the physical traits usually attributed to the serfs, a convention which lingered even after most millers had become free. Chaucer follows this tradition by giving “blake . . . and wyde . . . nosethirles” to Robyn and a round face and “camus” nose to Symkyn, the miller in the reeve’s story.l7 Flat...

... by the failure to point out that Symkyn re-echoes the Miller of the General Prologue in several re- spects; there is also no mention of the use of the Northern dialect in this tale and the subtle effects which Chaucer gains thereby. The criticism of the Merchant’s Tale (pp. 255 ff.) is inadequate...