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

                                
                                  Alas seide þis frankelein þat euer was .I. bore
                                
                                  ffor twey stalworþ sonnes .I. wene þat .I. haue lore
                                
                                  A champion is in þe place þat me haþ wrowht sorwe
                                
                                  ffor he haþ sleine my twey sonnes bot if god hem borwe
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                                  .I. wil ȝeue ten pounde be ihesu crist and more
                                
                                  Wiþe þe nones .I. fand a man to halden him sore
                                
                                  Gode man seide Gamelin wilt þou wele done [folio 57a] 
                                
                                  Hold myn hors while my man draweþ of my schone
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                                  And help my man to kepe my cloþes and m[y] stede
                                
                                  And .I. wil in-to þe place gone to loke if .I. mai spede
                                
                                  Be god seide þe frankelein it schal be wele done
                                
                                  .I. wil my self be þi man to drawen of þi schone
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                                  And wende þou in-to þe place ihesu crist þe spede
                                
                                  And drede nouȝt of þi cloþes ne of þi goode stede
                                
                                  Barfor and vngert Gamelin inne cam
                                
                                  All þat were in þe place hede of him þei name
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                                  Howe he dorste auntre him on him to done his myht
                                
                                  That was so dowhti a champion in wrastelinge and in fiht
                                
                                  Vp stert þe Champion rapely anone
                                
                                  To-ward ȝonge Gamelin he be-gan to gone
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                                  And seide who his fader and who is þi sire
                                
                                  For soþe þou arte a grete fole þat þou com hire
                                
                                  Gamelione ansewarde þe champion þoo
                                
                                  Thow knewe wele my fader while he couþe goo
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                                  Whiles he was on live be seint Martine
                                
                                  Sir Iohōn of Boundes was his name and .I. Gamelyne
                                
                                  ffelaw seide þe champion so mot .I. þriue
                                
                                  .I. knewe wele þi fader while he was on lyue
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                                  And þi selfe gamelyne .I. wil þat þou it here
                                
                                  While þoue were a ȝonge boye a muche schrewe þu were
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyn and swore be cristes ore
                                
                                  Now .I. am alder wax þou schalt finde me a more
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                                  Be god seide þe champion welcom mot þou be
                                
                                  Come þou ones in myne honde schalt þou neuer þe
                                
                                  It was wele wiþ-inne þe nyht and þe mone schone
                                
                                  Whan Gameline and þe champion to-geder gonne gone

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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 135
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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