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

                                
                                  Thanne seide the mayster king of outlawis
                                
                                  What seke ȝe ȝongemen vndir wode shawes
                                
                                  Gamelyn answeride þe king with his coroun
                                
                                  He must nedis walke in feeld þat may not walke in toun
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                                  Sire we walke not heere noon harme to do
                                
                                  But if we mete a dere to shete therto
                                
                                  As men that ben hungry and mowe no mete fynde
                                
                                  And ben hard bistad vnder wode lynde
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                                  Of Gamelyn wordis the maister hadde ruthe
                                
                                  And seide ȝe shal haue ynow haue god my treuthe
                                
                                  He bad hem sitte doun forto take reste
                                
                                  And bad hem ete and drynke and that of the beste/
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                                  As þei eten and drunken wel and fyne [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 61a] 
                                
                                  Thanne seide oon to another/ þis is Gamelyne
                                
                                  Tho was the maister outlawe into Counsel nome
                                
                                  And tolde how it was Gamelyn that was thider come
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                                  Anone as he herde how it was bifalle
                                
                                  He made hym maister vnder hym ouer hem alle
                                
                                  Withynne the thridde woke hym come tydyng
                                
                                  To the maister outlawe that was her king
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                                  That he shulde come home his pees was maad
                                
                                  And of that good tyding he was ful glade
                                
                                  Tho seide he to his ȝongemen soth forto telle
                                
                                  Me ben comen tydynges I may no lenger dwelle
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                                  Tho was gamelyn anone without tariyng
                                
                                  Made maister/ outlawe and corouned her king
                                
                                  Tho was Gamelyn crowned king of outlawes
                                
                                  And walkide a while vndir wode shawes
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                                  The fals knyght his brother/ was Shereue and sire
                                
                                  And lete his brother endite for hate and for hire
                                
                                  Tho were his bondemen sory and no þing glad
                                
                                  Whanne Gamelyn her lord wolfes heed was cried & maad
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                                  And sent oute of his men where þei myght hym fynde
                                
                                  fforto seke Gamelyn vndir wode lynde
                                
                                  To telle hym tidyng the wynde was went
                                
                                  And all his good reued and alle his men shent

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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 20
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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