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

                                
                                  Tho seide þe Champion so brouke .I. my swere
                                
                                  He is a foole þat þer-of byeþ þou selles it so dere
                                
                                  Tho seide þe frankelen þat was in muche care
                                
                                  ffelawe he saide whi lakkes þou his ware
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                                  Be seinte Iame in Galeys þat mony man haþ souht
                                
                                  Ȝit it is to goode chepe þat þou hast bought
                                
                                  Tho þat wardeins were of þe warstelinge
                                
                                  Come and brouht Gamelin þe Ram and þe ringe
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                                  And seide haue Gamelin þe ringe and þe Ram
                                
                                  ffor þe best warstelier þat euer here cam
                                
                                  Thus whanne Gamelin þe ramme and þe Ringe
                                
                                  And went wiþ muche Ioy home in þe Morneinge
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                                  ¶ His Broþer seyhe where he came wiþ þe grete route
                                
                                  And bad schette þe gate and holde him wiþ-oute
                                
                                  Te porter of his lorde was sore agast
                                
                                  And stert a-none to þe gate and lokked it fast
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                                  Now liþeþ and listeneþ boþ ȝonge and olde
                                
                                  And ȝe schal her gamen of Gameline þe bolde
                                
                                  Gamelin cam to þe gate for to haue commen in
                                
                                  And þan was it schot fast wiþ a pin
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                                  Than seide Gamelin. Portier vndo þe gate
                                
                                  ffor mony goode mannes son stonden þer-ate
                                
                                  Than anseward þe portier and swore be goddes berd [folio 58a] 
                                
                                  Þou ne schalt Gamelin com in to þis ȝerde
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                                  Thou lixt said Gamelin so brouke I my chinne
                                
                                  He smote þe wiket wiþe his fote and brak awaie þe pinne
                                
                                  The portier sauhe þo it myht no beter bee
                                
                                  He sette foote on erþe and gan for to flee
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                                  Be my faiþe seid Gamelin þat trauel is lorene
                                
                                  ffor .I. am as liht on fote as þou if þat þou haddest it sworne
                                
                                  Gamely ouer toke þe portere and his teen wrake
                                
                                  And girt him in þe neke þat he began to brake
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                                  And toke him be þat on arme and þrewe him in a welle
                                
                                  .Vij. faþem it was depe as .I. haue herd telle
                                
                                  Whan Gamelin the ȝonge þus had plaide his plaie
                                
                                  All þat in þe ȝerde were drowen hem awaie

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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 137
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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