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

                                
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                                  Ȝif god ȝif vs grace wel for to doo
                                
                                  He schal it a-bigge þat it broght þertoo
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                                  Than saide Adam þat lokkes hade hore
                                
                                  Cristes curs mote he haue þat him bond so sore
                                
                                  And þou wilt Gamelyn do after my rede
                                
                                  Ther is none in þe halle schal bere away his hede
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn we wil not do soo
                                
                                  We wil sle þe giltif and late þe tother goo
                                
                                  I wil in to þe halle and with þe Iustice speke
                                
                                  On hem þat ben giltif I wil ben a-wreke
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                                  Lete none scape at þe dore take ȝong men ȝeme
                                
                                  ffor I wil be Iustice þis day domes to deme
                                
                                  God spede me þis day at my new werke
                                
                                  Adam come with me for þou shalt be my clerk
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                                  His men answerden him and bade him don his best
                                
                                  And ȝif þou to vs haue nede þou shalt fynde vs prest
                                
                                  We wille stond with þe while þat we may dure [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 67a] 
                                
                                  And bute we wirken manly pay vs none hure
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                                  Ȝong men saide Gamelyn so mote I wel the
                                
                                  As trusti a mayster ȝe shal fynde me
                                
                                  Right þere þe Iustice satte in þe halle
                                
                                  In went Gamelyn amonges hem alle
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                                  Gamelyn lete vnfetere his brother out of bond
                                
                                  Then seide sir Ote his brother þat was hende
                                
                                  Thou haddest Almost Gamelyn dwellet to long
                                
                                  ffor þe quest is oute on me þat I shuld hong
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                                  Brother seide Gamelyn so god ȝeue me good rest
                                
                                  Þis day þe shul ben honged þat ben on þe quest
                                
                                  And the Iustice bothe þat is þe Iuge man
                                
                                  And the Shirreue bothe þorgh him it by-gan
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                                  Than saide Gamelyn to þe Iustice
                                
                                  Now is þi power done þou moste nedes rise
                                
                                  Thou hast ȝeuen domes þat ben yuel dight
                                
                                  I wille sitten in thi sete and dressen hem aright

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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 24
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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