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

                                
                                  Nay bi god seide thei thi drynke is not good.
                                
                                  It wolde make a mannes brayn to lyen in his hood.
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood stille and lokid hym a-boute.
                                
                                  And seide the schereue cometh with a gret route.
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn what ben now thi redis.
                                
                                  Here cometh the schereue and will haue our hedis.
                                
                                  Adam seide to Gamelyn myn rede is now this.
                                
                                  A-bide we no lenger lest we fare a-mys.
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                                  I rede that we to wode gone or that we be founde.
                                
                                  Better is there louse than in towne be bounde.
                                
                                  Adam toke bi the honde yong Gamelyne./
                                
                                  And euery of hem drank a draught of wyne./
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                                  And after token her cours and wenten her way.
                                
                                  Tho fonde the schereue nest but non ay.
                                
                                  The schereue light doun and wente in to halle.
                                
                                  And fonde the lorde feterid fast with alle.
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                                  The schereue vnfeterid hym right sone a-noon.
                                
                                  And sent aftir a leche to hele his rigge boon.
                                
                                  ¶ Lete we now the fals knyght lie in his care.
                                
                                  And talke we of Gamelyn and loke how he fare.
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                                  Gamelyn in to the wode stalkid stille.
                                
                                  And Adam spenser liked this ille.
                                
                                  Adam swore to Gamelyn be seynt Richere.
                                
                                  Now I se it is mery to be a spensere.
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                                  That leuyr me were keies to bere.
                                
                                  Than walken in this wilde wode my clothis to tere.
                                
                                  Adam seide Gamelyn dismay the right nought.
                                
                                  Mony a good mannys childe in care is brought.
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                                  As thei stood talkyng bothen in fere.
                                
                                  Adam herde talkyng of men and nygh hem thought thei were.
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyn vndir wode lokid a-right.
                                
                                  Seuyn score of yong men he sigh well dight.
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                                  Alle sate at the mete compas a-boute. [Harl. 1758 folio 52b] 
                                
                                  Adam seide Gamelyn now haue I no doute.
                                
                                  After bale cometh bote thorogh goddis myght.
                                
                                  Me thynke of mete and drynke I haue a sight.

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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 18
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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