=Redmond O'Neale=, Rokeby's page, beloved by Rokeby's daughter, Matilda,
whom he marries. He turns out to be Mortham's son and heir.--Sir W.
Scott, _Rokeby_ (1812).

=Reece= (_Captain_), R.N., of the _Mantelpiece_; adored by all his crew.
They had feather-beds, warm slippers, hot-water cans, brown Windsor
soap, and a valet to every four, for Captain Reece said, "It is my duty
to make my men happy, and I will." Captain Reece had a daughter, ten
female cousins, a niece and a ma, six sisters and an aunt or two, and,
at the suggestion of William Lee, the coxswain, married these ladies to
his crew--"It is my duty to make my men happy, and I will." Last of all,
Captain Reece married the widowed mother of his coxswain, and they were
all married on one day--"It was their duty, and they did it."--W. S.
Gilbert, _The Bab Ballads_ ("Captain Reece, R.N.").

=Reeve's Tale= (_The_). Symond Symkyn, a miller of Trompington, near
Cambridge, used to serve "Soler Hall College," but was an arrant thief.
Two scholars, Aleyn and John, undertook to see that a sack of corn sent
to be ground was not tampered with; so one stood by the hopper, and one
by the trough which received the flour. In the mean time the miller let
their horse loose, and, when the young men went to catch it, purloined
half a bushel of the flour, substituting meal instead. It was so late
before the horse could be caught that the miller offered the two
scholars a "shakedown" in his own chamber, but when they were in bed he
began to belabor them unmercifully. A scuffle ensued, in which the
miller, being tripped up, fell upon his wife. His wife, roused from her
sleep, seized a stick, and, mistaking the bald pate of her husband for
the night-cap of one of the young men, banged it so lustily that the man
was almost stunned with the blows. In the mean time the two scholars
made off without payment, taking with them the sack and also the
half-bushel of flour, which had been made into cakes.--Chaucer,
_Canterbury Tales_ (1388).

[Asterism] Boccaccio has a similar story in his _Decameron_. It is also
the subject of a _fabliau_ entitled _De Gombert et des Deux Clers_.
Chaucer borrowed his story from a _fabliau_ given by Thomas Wright in
his _Anecdota Literaria_, 15.

=Reformation= (_The_). It was in germ in the early Lollards, and was
radiant in the works of Wycliffe.

It was present in the pulpit of Pierre de Bruys, in the pages of Arnoldo
da Brescia, in the cell of Roger