APPENDIX TO GROUP A. [THE SPURIOUS TALE OF GAMELYN.] [Spurious Link.]
Fye þer-one it is so foule .I. will nowe tell no forþere [folio 54b]
For schame of þe harlotrie þat seweþ after
A velany it were þare-of more to spell
Bot of a knyhte and his sonnes My tale .I. wil forþe tell
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[THE SPURIOUS TALE OF GAMELYN.] [Tale.]
And þere-fore listeneþ. and herkeneþ þis tale ariht.
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And ȝe schullen here of a douhte knyht
Sir Iohn of Boundys was his name
He couþe of nortur and muchel of game
þre sonnes þe knyht had and wiþ his body he hem wanne
The eldest was a muche schrewe and sone he beganne
His breþerne loued wele here fader and of him were agast
The eldest deserued his fader curs and had it att þe last
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The good knyht his fadere leuede so ȝore
That deþe was commen him to and handeled him sore
The goode knyht cared sore seke þer he leye
How his children schold leuen after his deye
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He had bue wide where bot no husbonde he was
All þe londe þat he [[he later]] had was verrey purchas
Fayne he wolde it were y-dressed a-monge hem al
That iche of hem miht have his parte as it wald fal
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Tho sente he in-to Contre after wise knyhtes
To helpen delen his londes and drisse hem to rihtes
He sent hem worde by lettres þei scholden hihe belyue
If þei wolde speke wiþ him if þei were on lyue
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