Crossword-Solution: SIMKIN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

His name was *hoten deinous Simekin* *called “Disdainful Simkin”* A wife he hadde, come of noble kin: The parson of the town her father was.

Our manciple I hope* he will be dead, *expect So workes aye the wanges* in his head: *cheek-teeth And therefore is I come, and eke Alein, To grind our corn and carry it home again: I pray you speed us hence as well ye may.” “It shall be done,” quoth Simkin, “by my fay.

Help, Simkin, for these false clerks do fight” This John start up as fast as e’er he might, And groped by the walles to and fro To find a staff; and she start up also, And knew the estres* better than this John, *apartment And by the wall she took a staff anon: And saw a little shimmering of a light, For at an hole in shone the moone bright, And by that light she saw them both the two, But sickerly* she wist not who was who, *certainly But as she saw a white thing in her eye.

She had been brought up in a nunnery; For Simkin ne’er would take a wife, he said, Unless she were well tutored and a maid, To carry on his line of yeomanry: And she was proud and pert as is a pie.

There durst no wight address her but as dame: None was so bold that passed along the way Who with her durst once toy or jesting play, Unless he wished the sudden loss of life Before Disdainful Simkin’s sword or knife.