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

                                
                                  They dreden him ful sore for þe werke þat he wrouht
                                
                                  An þe faire compaignie þat he þeder brouht
                                
                                  Gameline ȝede to þe ȝate and lete it vp wide
                                
                                  He lete in al þat gone wolde or ride
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                                  And seide ȝe be welcom withe-outen any greue
                                
                                  ffor we will bue Maistres here and aske noman leue
                                
                                  Ȝisterdaic I. left seide ȝonge gamelyne
                                
                                  In my broþer seler. five tun of wyne
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                                  .I. wil nouȝt þis company parten a twynne
                                
                                  And ȝe wil done after me whan any sope is þere-inne
                                
                                  And if my broþer gruche or make foul chiere
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                                  Othere for spence of mete and drink þat we spende here
                                
                                  .I. am oure Catur and bereþ oure aller purse
                                
                                  He schal haue for his grucheinge seint Maries curse
                                
                                  Mi broþer is a negon .I. swere be cristes ore
                                
                                  And we wil spende largely þat we haue spent ȝore
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                                  And who þat makeþ grucchinge þat we here duelle
                                
                                  He schal vnto þe drawe welle
                                
                                  .Vij. daies and seuen nyht Gamelin helde his fest
                                
                                  Wiþþe muche solas was þer and none chest
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                                  In a litul ture turet his broþer steke
                                
                                  And sawehe him waste his goode bot dorst he nouȝt spek
                                
                                  Erly on a morneynge on þe .viij. daie
                                
                                  The gestes cam to Gamelin and wolde gone here waie
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                                  Lorde seide Gamelin wil ȝe soo hihe
                                
                                  All þe wyne is nouht ȝit dronken so brouke .I. myn eye
                                
                                  Gamelin in his hert was ful woo
                                
                                  Whan his gestes toke here leue fro him for to goo.
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                                  He wolde þei had duelled longer and þei seide naye [folio 58b] 
                                
                                  Bot be-tauht Gamelyn god and goode daye
                                
                                  Thus made Gamelin his fest and brouht wele to ende
                                
                                  And after his gestes had take leue to wende
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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 138
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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