John And Aleyn Tried To Get A Carpenter's Wife Into Bed

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The two clerks tried to get a carpenter's wife into bed.
John and Aleyn inflict upon Symkyn's wife and daughter as revenge. ohn and Aleyn inflict upon Symkyn's wife and daughter as revenge. Aleyn tries to return to his bed, the misplacement of the cradle causes him to crawl into bed with Symkyn by accident. Thinking he's John, Aleyn boasts to Symkyn that he had sex with the miller's daughter all night.
Enraged, Symkyn rises out of bed and punches Aleyn in the nose, then tumbles onto the bed where John and his wife are sleeping. When his wife wakes up, she tries to help her husband by hitting the clerks with a staff, but mistakes her husband's bald skull for the white caps the clerks wear, and knocks him over the head instead.Aleyn and John

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