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

                                
                                  ¶ Tho seide the Champion so brok I my swere.
                                
                                  He is a fooll that ther-of bieth thou sellest it so dere.
                                
                                  Tho seide the frankeleyn that was in moche care.
                                
                                  ffelaw he seide whi lakkest thou this ware.
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                                  Be seynt Iame in Gales that mony man hath soght.
                                
                                  Yet is it to good chepe that thou hast boght.
                                
                                  Tho that wardeyns were of that wrastlyng.
                                
                                  Come and brought Gamelyn the Ram and the Ryng.
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  A Gamelyn thought it was a faire thyng.
                                
                                  And went with moche ioye home in the mornyng.
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                                  His brother sigh where he came with the gret route.
                                
                                  And bad schit the gate and holde hym with-oute.
                                
                                  The porter of his lord was sore a-gast.
                                
                                  And sterte a-noon to the gate and lokked it fast.
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                                  ¶ Now litheþ and listeneth bothe yong and olde.
                                
                                  And ye schull here gamyn of Gamelyn the bolde.
                                
                                  Gamelyn come to þe yate for to haue come yn.
                                
                                  Than was it schit fast with a pyn.
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                                  Than seide Gamelyn porter vndo the yate.
                                
                                  ffor a gode mannes sone stondeþ ther-ate.
                                
                                  Than answarde the porter and sware bi goddis berde.
                                
                                  Thou ne schalt Gamelyn come in to this yerde.
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                                  Thou lixt seide Gamelyn so broke I my chyn.
                                
                                  He smote the wiket with his foot and brake a-waye the pyn. [Harl. 1758 folio 49a] 
                                
                                  The porter sigh tho it myght no better be.
                                
                                  He sette foot on erthe and be-gan to flee.
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                                  Be my fay seide Gamelyn that traueile is lore.
                                
                                  ffor I am on foote as light as thou haddist it swore
                                
                                  Gamelyn ouer-toke the porter and his tene wrake.
                                
                                  And girt hym in the nekke that the boon to-brake.
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                                  And toke hym by that one arme and threwe hym in a welle./
                                
                                  .Vij.C. fadome it was depe as I haue herd telle.
                                
                                  Whan Gamelyn the yong thus had pleide his plaie.
                                
                                  Alle that in the yeerde were drowen hem a-waie.

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Title: The Hengwrt 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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