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

                                
                                  Thus Gamelyn and Adam wroght right fast.
                                
                                  And pleide with the monkis and made hem a-gast.
                                
                                  Thider thei come rydyng ioly with swaynes.
                                
                                  And home a-yen thei were lad in cartis and waynes./
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                                  Tho thei hadden alle y-doo. then seide a gray ffrere.
                                
                                  Alas sir Abbot what dide we now here.
                                
                                  Tho that we comen hider/ it was a colde reede.
                                
                                  Vs hadde ben better at home with water and with breede.
                                
                                  While Gamelyn made ordris of monkis and frere.
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                                  Euyr stood his brother and made foule chere.
                                
                                  Gamelyn vp with his staf that he well knew. [Harl. 1758 folio 51b] 
                                
                                  And girt hym in the nek that he ouer threw.
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                                  A litill a-boue the girdill the rigge boon to-brast.
                                
                                  And sette hym in the feters ther he satt arst.
                                
                                  Sitte there brother seide Gamelyn.
                                
                                  ffor to colen thi body as I dide myn.
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                                  As swithe as thei haddyn wroken hem on her foon.
                                
                                  Thei asked water and waschen a-noon.
                                
                                  What some for her loue and some for her awe.
                                
                                  Alle the seruauntis serueth hem of the best lawe.
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                                  ¶ The Schereue was thenne but fyue myle.
                                
                                  And all was tolde hym in a litell while.
                                
                                  How Gamelyn and Adam haden doone a sory res.
                                
                                  Bounden and wounden men a-yens the kyngis pes.
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                                  Tho bi-gan sone strif for to wake.
                                
                                  And the Schireue a-boute Gamelyn for to take.
                                
                                  ¶ Now litheþ and listneth so god yeue you good fyne.
                                
                                  And ye schull here good game of yong Gamelyne.
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                                  ffoure and twenti yong men that helden hem full bolde.
                                
                                  Come to the schireue and seide that thei wolde.
                                
                                  Gamelyn and Adam fette bi her fay.
                                
                                  The Schirreue yeue hem leue soth for to say.
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                                  Thei hyeden fast wolde thei not lynne.
                                
                                  Till thei come to the gate there Gamelyn was ynne.
                                
                                  Thei knokkeden on the gate the porter was nyghe.
                                
                                  And lokid out at an hole as man that was slighe.

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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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