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

                                
                                  Some for Gamelyns loue and some for eie.
                                
                                  Alle thei drowhen hem to halues tho he gan to pleie.
                                
                                  What now seide Gamelyn euyll mote ye the.
                                
                                  Will ye begynne contek and so sone fle.
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                                  Gamelyn sought his brother whither he was flowe.
                                
                                  And saugh where he loked oute at a wyndowe.
                                
                                  Brother seide Gamelyn come a litell nere.
                                
                                  And I will teche the to pleie at the bokelere.
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                                  His brother hym answerde and seide be seynt Richere.
                                
                                  While that pestell is in thi honde I will come no nere.
                                
                                  Brother I will make thi pees I swere bi cristes ore
                                
                                  Cast a-weie the pestell and wrath the no more.
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                                  I most nede seide Gamelyn wrath me at ones.
                                
                                  ffor thou wolde make thi men to breke my bones.
                                
                                  Ne had I had mayn and myght in myn armes.
                                
                                  To haue putte hem fro me thei wolde haue do me harmes.
                                
                                  ¶ Gamelyn seide his brother be thou not wroth.
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                                  ffor to seen the haue harme me it were right loth.
                                
                                  I ne dide it noght brother but for a fondyng.
                                
                                  ffor to loken if thou art strong and art so yeng.
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                                  Come a-doune then to me and graunt me my bone.
                                
                                  Of oo thyng I will the axe and we schull saught sone.
                                
                                  Doune than come his brother that fekill was and felle.
                                
                                  And was swithe sore a-ferd of the pestelle.
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                                  He seide brothir Gamelyn axe me thi bone.
                                
                                  And loke thou me blame but I it graunt sone./
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyn brother y-wis. [Harl. 1758 folio 47b] 
                                
                                  ¶ And we schull be at one thou muste graunte me this.
                                
                                  All that my fadir me by-quath while that he was on lyue.
                                
                                  Thou muste do me it haue yef we schull not stryue.
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                                  That schalt thou haue Gamelyn I swere be cristes ore.
                                
                                  All that thi fadir the by-quath though thou woldest haue more.
                                
                                  Thi londe that lieth leye well it schall be sowe.
                                
                                  And thyn housis reisid vp that ben leide full lowe.
                                
                                  Thus seide the knyght to Gamelyn with mouth.
                                
                                  And thought on falsnes as he well couth.

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Title: The Hengwrt 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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