The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Tho þe knyghtes herden syke þat he lay
                                
                                  Had þei no rest nother nyght no day
                                
                                  Til þei come to him þer he lay stille
                                
                                  On his deeþ bed to a-bide goddes wille
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                                  Then seide þe good knyght sike þer he lay
                                
                                  Lordes I ȝow warne for soth with-oute nay
                                
                                  I may no lenger lyuen here in this stonde
                                
                                  ffor thorugh goddes wille deth drawes me to grounde
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                                  Ther nas none of hem alle þat herd hem a right
                                
                                  That thei hadden reuthe of þat ilke knyght
                                
                                  And seiden sire for goddes loue ne dismay ȝow nought
                                
                                  God may done bote of bale þat is now I-wroght
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                                  Than spake þe gode knyght sike þer he lay
                                
                                  Bot of bale god may send I wot it is no nay
                                
                                  But I byseke ȝow knyghtes for the loue of me
                                
                                  Goth and dresseth my londes among my sones thre
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                                  And for the loue of god de-lith not hem amys
                                
                                  And forȝeteþ not Gamelyn my ȝong sone þat is
                                
                                  Takiþ hide to that one as wel as to that other
                                
                                  Seeld ȝe seen any heier helpen his brother
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                                  Tho leten þei the knyght lyen þat was not in hele [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 57b] 
                                
                                  And wenten in to conseil his londis for to dele
                                
                                  ffor to delem hem alle to oon that was her þoght
                                
                                  And for Gamelyn was ȝongest he shuld haue noght
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                                  Alle the lond þat ther was þei dalten it in two
                                
                                  And leten Gamelyn þe ȝong with-outen lond go
                                
                                  And eche of hem seide to oþer ful lowde
                                
                                  His breþrin might ȝeue him lond when he good cowde
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                                  When thei hadde deled the lond at her wille
                                
                                  Thei comen to þe knyght þer he lay stille
                                
                                  And told him a-noon how thei had wroght
                                
                                  And the knyght ther he lay likid it right noght
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                                  Than saide the knyght by seynt martyn
                                
                                  ffor al þat ȝe haue don ȝet is þe lond myn
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue Neighboures stondith alle stil
                                
                                  And I wil delen my lond right after my wil

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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