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

                                
                                  He vnlokked Gamelyn bothe hondis and feet.
                                
                                  In hope of auauncement that he hym bi-heet.
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyn thankid be goddis sonde
                                
                                  Now I am lose bothe foot and honde.
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                                  Had I now eten and dronken a-right./
                                
                                  Ther is noon in this hous schulde bynde me this nyght.
                                
                                  Adam toke Gamelyn as stille as ony stoon.
                                
                                  And lad hym in to spense raply a-noon.
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                                  And sette hym to soper right in a pryue stede.
                                
                                  He bad hym do gladly and Gamelyn so dide.
                                
                                  A-noon as Gamelyn had eten well and fyne.
                                
                                  And therto dronken well of the rede wyne.
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn what is now thi reed.
                                
                                  Or I go to my brother and gird of his heed./
                                
                                  Gamelyn seide Adam it schall not be so.
                                
                                  I con teche the a rede that is worth the two.
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                                  I wote well for sothe that this is no nay.
                                
                                  We schull haue a mangerie right on sonday.
                                
                                  Abbotes and priours mony here schall be.
                                
                                  And other men of holy chirche as I telle the.
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                                  Thou schalt stonde vp bi the post as thou were bound fast.
                                
                                  And I schall leue hem vn-loke that a-weie thou may hem cast./
                                
                                  Whan that thei haue eten and waschen here hondis.
                                
                                  Thou schalt biseke hem alle to bryng the out of bondis.
                                
                                  And if thei will borow the that were good game. [Harl. 1758 folio 50b] 
                                
                                  Than were thou out of prison and I out of blame.
                                
                                  And if eche of hem saie to vs nay.
                                
                                  I schall do a nother/ I swere be this day.
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                                  Thou schalt haue a good staf and I will haue a nother/
                                
                                  And cristes curs haue that oon that faileth that other/
                                
                                  Ye for god seide Gamelyn I say it for me.
                                
                                  If I faile on my side yuell mote I the.
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                                  Yf we schull algate assoile hem of here synne.
                                
                                  Warne me brother Adam whan we schull be-gynne.
                                
                                  Gamelyn seide Adam be seynt charite.
                                
                                  I will warne the biforne whan it schall be.

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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 13
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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