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

                                
                                  Tho seide the Champion so brok I my swere
                                
                                  He is a fool þat ther-of bieth þou sellest it so dere
                                
                                  Thoo seide the ffrankeleyn þat was in moche care
                                
                                  ffelaw he seid whi lakkest þou þis ware
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                                  By seynt Iame in Galys þat mony man hath soght
                                
                                  Ȝit is it to good chepe that þou hast bought
                                
                                  Tho þat wardeyns were of þat wrastlinge
                                
                                  Come and brought Gamelyn þe Ramme and þe rynge
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  And went with moche ioye home in þe mornynge
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                                  His brother seie wher he came with þe grete route
                                
                                  And bade shit þe gate and hold hym with-oute
                                
                                  The porter of his lord was sore a-gaste
                                
                                  And sterte anon to þe gate and lokkid it faste
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                                  Now litheþ and listenythe boþe ȝong and old
                                
                                  And ȝe shul here gamyn of Gamelyn þe bold
                                
                                  Gamelyn come ther-to for to haue comyn In [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 60b] 
                                
                                  Than was it shet fast with a pyn
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                                  Than seide Gamelyn Porter vndo þe ȝate
                                
                                  ffor gode mannys sore stonde þer ate
                                
                                  Than answerid þe porter and sware by goddes berd
                                
                                  Thou ne shalt Gamelyn come in to þis ȝerde
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                                  Thou lixt seid Gamelyn so broke I my chyne
                                
                                  He smote the wiket with his foote and brake away the pyne
                                
                                  The porter sey tho it might ne better be
                                
                                  He sette foote on erthe and by-gan to flee
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                                  By my fai seide gamelyn þat trauaile is lore
                                
                                  ffor I am on foote as light as þou haddest it swore
                                
                                  Gamelyn ouer toke þe porter and his tene wrake
                                
                                  And girt him in the nekke þat þe boon to-brake
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                                  And toke him by þat on arme and threw him in a welle
                                
                                  VijC. fadame it was depe as I haue herd telle
                                
                                  Whan Gamelyn þe ȝong þus had plaied his plaie
                                
                                  Alle þat in þe ȝerde were drowen hem a-waye

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 9
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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