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

                                
                                  Tho þe knyhtes herden seek þat he laye
                                
                                  Had þei no reste neyþer nyht nor daye
                                
                                  Til þei cam to hime þere he lay stille
                                
                                  On his deþ bede to abide goddes wille
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                                  Than seide þe good knyhte seke þere he lay
                                
                                  Lordes .I. ȝowe warne soþe wiþ-owten nay
                                
                                  .I. may no longer leue here on þis stonde
                                
                                  ffor þorwhe goddes will deþ draueþ me to grounde.
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                                  Ther nas none of hem all þat herde him a-riht
                                
                                  That þei hadden rewþe of þat ilke knyht
                                
                                  And seid sir for goddes loue ne dismay ȝowe nouht
                                
                                  God maye done bote of bale þat is nowe ywrouht
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                                  Than spake þe good knyht seeke þere he [[he later]]  laie
                                
                                  Bote of bale god may sende .I. wote it is no naye
                                
                                  Bot .I. be seke ȝow knyhtes for þe loue of me
                                
                                  Goþ and dresseþ my londes amonge myne sonnes þre
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                                  And for þe loue of God deleþ hem nouht a-mys
                                
                                  And for-ȝete nouht Gamelyn my yonge son þat i
                                
                                  Takeþ hede to þat one as wele as to þe toþer [folio 55a] 
                                
                                  Selde ȝe see any heire helpen his broþer
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                                  Tho lete þei þe knyht lyen þat was nouht in hele
                                
                                  And wenten in to counseil his londes for to dele
                                
                                  ffor to delen hem al to one þat was here þouhte
                                
                                  And for gamelin was ȝongest he schold haue nouht
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                                  All þe londe þat þere was þei dalten it in tuo
                                
                                  And leten Gamelyn þe ȝonge wiþ-owten lande go
                                
                                  And iche of hem seide to oþere ful loude
                                
                                  His breþerne mow ȝeuen him londe whan he goode coude
                                
                                  Whan þei hadde deled þe lond att þeire will
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                                  They comen to þe knyht þere he laie ful still
                                
                                  And tolde him a-none howe þei had wrouht
                                
                                  And þe knyht þere he laie liked it riht nouht
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                                  ¶ Than seide þe knyht be seinte Martine
                                
                                  ffor al þat ȝe haue done ȝit is þe londe myne
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue neyboures stondeþ al still
                                
                                  And .I. will delen my londe riht after my will

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 130
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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