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

                                
                                  ¶ And all þe while þat Gamelyne helde his mangeri
                                
                                  His broþere þouht on him be wreke wiþ his trecheri
                                
                                  Whan Gamelin gestes were reden and gone
                                
                                  Gamelyne stode þan alone frende had he none
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                                  Tho after-warde ful sone wiþ-inne a litel stonde
                                
                                  Gamelin was taken and ful harde ybounde
                                
                                  fforþe cam þe false knyht oute of selere
                                
                                  To gamelin his broþer he ȝode ful nere
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                                  And seide to Gamelin who maade þe so bolde
                                
                                  ffor streye my store of myn housolde
                                
                                  Broþer seide Gamelin wraþþe þe riht nouht
                                
                                  ffor it is mony day gone seþþe it was bouht
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                                  ffor broþer þou hast had be seint Richere
                                
                                  Of .xv. plowhes of londe þis .xvj. ȝere
                                
                                  And of al þe bestes þou hast forþe bredde
                                
                                  Þat my fader me quaþe on his dede bedde
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                                  Of al þis .xvj. ȝere .I. ȝeue þe prowe
                                
                                  ffor þe mete and þe drinke þat we han spende nowe
                                
                                  Than seide þe false knyhte þere yuel mot he þe
                                
                                  Herken broþer Gamelin what .I. wil ȝeue þe
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                                  ffor of my body broþer geten here haue .I. none
                                
                                  .I. will make þe my eire .I. swere be seint Iohn
                                
                                  Par ma faye seide Gamelin and it so be
                                
                                  And þou þinke as þou seiste god ȝelde it þe
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                                  No thinge wist Gamelin of his broþers gile
                                
                                  There-for he was be-gilede in a litel while
                                
                                  Gamelyn seide he o þinge .I. þe tell
                                
                                  Tho þou þrewe my porter in to þe drawe well
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                                  .I. swore in þat wraþþe and in þat grete mote
                                
                                  That scholdest be bounden boþe honde and fote
                                
                                  Ther-fore .I. þe be-seche broþe Gameline
                                
                                  Lat me nouȝt be for-sworne broþer art þou myne
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                                  Lat me binde þe boþ honde and foote
                                
                                  ffor to holden myne avowe as .I. þe be-hote
                                
                                  Brother seide Gamelin so mot .I. þe
                                
                                  Þou schalt not be for-sworne for þe loue of me

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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 139
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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