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

                                
                                  Ow seide Gamelyn so broke I my bone.
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                                  Now I haue spied that frendis haue I none.
                                
                                  Cursed mote he worth both flesch and blood.
                                
                                  That euer doth priour or Abbot any good.
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                                  Adam the spenser toke vp the cloth.
                                
                                  And loked on Gamelyn and sigh that he was wroth.
                                
                                  Adam on the pantrie litill thoght.
                                
                                  But two good staues to the halle dore he broght.
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                                  Adam loked on Gamelyn and he was ware a-none.
                                
                                  And cast a-weie the feters and bi-gan to gone.
                                
                                  Tho he cam to Adam he toke the oon staf.
                                
                                  And bigan to worche and good strokes yaf.
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                                  Gamelyn come in to the halle and Adam spenser bothe.
                                
                                  And lokid hem a-boute as thei had ben wrothe.
                                
                                  Gamelyn spreyneth holi water with a Oken spire.
                                
                                  That some that stood vp right fell in the fire.
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                                  Ther was no lewid man that in the halle stood.
                                
                                  That wolde do Gamelyn any thyng but good.
                                
                                  But stodyn be siden and lete hem both wirche.
                                
                                  ffor thei had no reweth of men of holi chirche.
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                                  Abbot or priour Monk or Chanoun.
                                
                                  That Gamelyn ouertoke a-noon thei yeden doun.
                                
                                  Ther was non of alle that with his staf mette.
                                
                                  That he made hem ouerthrowe and quyt hem his dette.
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                                  Gamelyn seide Adam for seynt charite.
                                
                                  Paie good lyueray for the loue of me.
                                
                                  And I will kepe the dore so euer here I masse./
                                
                                  Er thei ben assoiled ther schall noon passe.
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                                  Doute the noght seide Gamelyn while we ben in fere.
                                
                                  Kepe thou well the dore and I will worche here.
                                
                                  By-stere the good Adam and let ther non fle.
                                
                                  And we schull telle largely how mony that ther be.
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                                  Gamelyn seide Adam do hem but good.
                                
                                  Thei ben men of holy chirche drawe of hem no blood.
                                
                                  Saue well the crowne and do hem no harmes.
                                
                                  But breke both her leggis and sithen her armes.

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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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