• The Reeve is a skilled carpenter, a profession mocked in the previous "Miller's Tale". Oswald responds with a tale that mocks the Miller's profession.
  • The Reeve’s Tale follows immediately after the Miller’s Tale in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and is told as a rejoinder to it.
  • In the following year, on 28 July 1939, Tolkien returned with a similar performance of a slightly abridged version of “The Reeve’s Tale.”
  • 06 – The Reeve’s Tale. ... 06 – The Reeve’s Tale. Saturday Oct 22, 2016.
  • "The Reeve's Tale" (written in the original Middle English as "The Reeves Tale" without an apostrophe) is a bawdy comic short story in verse from The Canterbury...
  • The Reeve's Tale. Here biginneth the Reves tale. At Trumpington, nat fer fro Cantebrigge
  • But it were only Osewold the Reeve. Because he was of carpenteres craft, A little ire is in his hearte laft* ... Notes to the Prologue to the Reeves Tale.
  • Track 6 on The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English). The Reeve’s Tale is told to get revenge at The Miller whose story mocks an old Reeve
  • The Reeve’s Tale is the story of John and Alan, two students who set out to trick the local miller. The miller is a man named Simkin, who is notorious for stealing...
  • “Now, sirs,” quoth then this Osëwold the Reeve, “I pray you all that none of you do grieve, Though I answér, and somewhat set his hove,1217 For lawful is force off...