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

                                
                                  Som for for Gamelines loue and somme for his eye
                                
                                  Al þei drouhe be halues whan he be-gan to pleye
                                
                                  What nowe seide Gamelin yeuel mot ȝe þe
                                
                                  Wil ȝe beginne contik and so sone flye
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                                  Gamelin souht his broþere whider he was flowe
                                
                                  And sawh where þat he loked oute at a windowe
                                
                                  Broþer seide Gamelyn come a litel nere
                                
                                  And .I. wil teche a pleie att þe bokelere
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                                  His broþer him ansewarde and swore be seint Richere
                                
                                  While þe pestel is in þi honde .y. come þe no nere
                                
                                  Broþer .I. wil make þi pees .I. swere be goddes ore
                                
                                  Cast awaie þi Pestel and wraþþe þe nomore
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                                  .I. mot nede seide Gamelyne wraþþe me att ones
                                
                                  ffor þou wolde make þi men breke my bones
                                
                                  Ne had .I. had maine and miht in boþe myn armes
                                
                                  To fende hem from me þei wolde haue done me armes
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                                  Gamelin seide his broþere be þou nouht wroþe
                                
                                  ffor to seen þe haue harme me were riht loþe
                                
                                  .I. ne dide it nouht broþer but for a fondeinge
                                
                                  ffor to loken if þoue were stronge and art so ȝynge
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                                  Come a-doune þan to me and graunt me my bone
                                
                                  Of þinge .I. will þe axen and we schal sauhte sone
                                
                                  ¶ Doune þan cam his broþer þat fikel was and fel
                                
                                  And was riht sore agast of þe pestel
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                                  He seide broþer Gameline ax me þi bone
                                
                                  And loke þou me blame bot .I. it graunt þe sone
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyin broþe ywis
                                
                                  And we schol bene att one þou most me graunt þis
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                                  All þat my fader me bequaþe while he was on lyue
                                
                                  Þou most do me it haue if we scholl nouht striue
                                
                                  That schalt þou haue Gamelyn .I. swere be goddes ore
                                
                                  Al þat þi fader þe be-quaþe þouhe þou woldest haue more
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                                  Thi londe þat lieþ ley wele it schal be sowe
                                
                                  And þin house reised vpe þat ben leide so lowe
                                
                                  Thus seide þe knyht to Gameline be mowþe
                                
                                  And þouht of falsenes as he wele couþe

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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 133
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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