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

                                
                                  Howe broþer Gamelyn howe answeres þou nowe
                                
                                  Thou spak neuer suche a worde as þou dost nowe
                                
                                  Be my faiþe seide Gamelin now me þenkeþ nede
                                
                                  Of al þe harmes that .I. haue .I. toke neuer are hede
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                                  My parkes bene broken and myn dere be reuede
                                
                                  Of myne armoure and my stedes nouht is me be-leued
                                
                                  Al þat my ffader me be-quathe al goþe to schame
                                
                                  And þer-for haue þou goddes curse broþer be þi name
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                                  ¶ Than be-spakke his broþer þat rape was of rees
                                
                                  Stond still gedelinge and hold riht þi pes
                                
                                  Thou schalt be faine for to haue þi mete and þi wede
                                
                                  What spekest þou gamelin of londe or of lede
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                                  Than seide Gameline þe childe þat was ȝinge
                                
                                  Cristes curs mot he haue þat clepeþ m[e] gedelinge
                                
                                  .I. am no wers gadelyn ne no wers whyght
                                
                                  Bot borne of lady and geten of a knyht
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                                  Ne dorste he nouht to Gamelyin neere a fote go
                                
                                  Bot cleped to him his men and seide to hem þo
                                
                                  Goþe and bete þis boye and reueþ him his witte
                                
                                  And lat him leren a-noþer time to answere me bitte
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                                  Than seide þe childe ȝonge Gamelyn
                                
                                  Cristes curs most þou haue broþer art þou myne.
                                
                                  And if schal algate be beten a-none
                                
                                  Cristes curs must þou haue bot þou be þat one
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                                  And anon his broþer in þat grete hete
                                
                                  Made his men to fet staues Gamelin for to bete
                                
                                  Whan euery of hem had a staf ynome
                                
                                  Gamely was war þoo he sey hem comen
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                                  Tho Gamelyn seye hem com he loked ouere all
                                
                                  And was ware of a pestel stondeinge vnder a wall
                                
                                  Gamelyn was liht and þeder gan he lepe [folio 56a] 
                                
                                  And droue al his breþes men riht on an hepe
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                                  He loked as wilde lyon and leide on good wone
                                
                                  Tho his broþer sawhe þat þei be-gan to gone
                                
                                  He fleyhe vpe in-til a lofte and schotte þe dore fast
                                
                                  Thus Gamelyn with his pestel made hem al a-gast

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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 132
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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