The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Alle þe while þat Gamelyn held his mangerie
                                
                                  His broþer þoght on hym be wreke with his trecherie
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyns gestis were riden and gone
                                
                                  Gamelyn stode a-none allone frende hed he none
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  Tho after felle sone with-In a litul stonde
                                
                                  Gamelyn was taken and ful hard I-bonde.
                                
                                  fforþ come þe fals knyght oute of þe solere [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 56b] 
                                
                                  To Gamelyn his broþer he ȝede ful nere
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                                  And saide to Gamelyn ho made þe so bolde
                                
                                  ffor to stroien my store of my householde
                                
                                  Brother seyde Gamelyn wrath the right noght
                                
                                  ffor it is mony day gone sith it was boght
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                                  ffor broþer þou last hadde by seynt Richere
                                
                                  Of xv. plowes of lond þis sixtene ȝere
                                
                                  And of alle the bestis þou hast forþ bredde
                                
                                  That my fader me by-quaþ on his deþ bedde
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                                  Of alle þis sixtene I ȝeue þe þe prowe
                                
                                  ffor þe mete and the drynke þat we haue spended now
                                
                                  Than sayde þe false knyght euyl mote he the
                                
                                  Herken broþer Gamelyn what I wil geve þe
                                  Line 364 
                                
                                  ffor of my body brother here geten haue I none
                                
                                  I wil make the myn eyer I swere by seynt Iohan
                                
                                  Parfay saide Gamelyn and it so be
                                
                                  And þou þinkest as þou seist gold ȝeld it the
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                                  No thyng wist Gamelyn of his broþer gyle
                                
                                  Therfore he hym by-gyled in a litul while
                                
                                  Gamelyn seide he oo þyng I þe telle
                                
                                  Tho thow threw my porter in þe drawe wel
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                                  I swor in þat wrath and in that grete moote
                                
                                  That þou shuldist be bond both hond and foote
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
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                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  ffor to holden my a-vou as I the be-hote
                                
                                  Brother seide Gamelyn as mote ȝe the
                                
                                  Þou shalt be for-swore for the loue of me

                                  Line 380

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 11
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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