High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Miller`s Tale" (Middle English: The Milleres Tale) is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales (1380s-1390s), told by the drunken miller Robyn to "quite" (requite) "The Knight`s Tale". The Miller`s Prologue is the first "quite" that occurs in the tales (to "quite" someone is to make repayment for a service, the service here being the telling of stories).