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

Tho maad þei Game to sitte myht he nouht stonde Til þei hadde him bowden boþe fote and honde The false knyht his broþer of Gamelin was a-gast [folio 59a] And sent affeter fetters to fetterne him fast 384 His broþer maade lesinges on him þer he stode And tolden hem þat comen inne þat Gamelin was woode Gamelin sto' a post bounden in þe hall Þo þat comen In . loked on him all 388 Euer stode Gamelin euen vp-riht Bot mete and drinke hadde ne none neyþer daye ne nyht Than seide Gameline broþer be my halse Nowe .I. haue aspyede þou ert a party false 392 Had .I. wist þat treson þat þou hast founde .I. wolde haue ȝeue strokes ar .I. hadde be bounde Gamelin stoode bounden still as any stone Two daies and two nyhtes mete hade he none 396 Þan seide Gamelin þat stode y-bounde stronge Adam spenser me þinke .I. fast to longe Adam spenser now .I. be-seche þe ffor þe muche loue my fader loued þe 400 If þou maie come to cayes lesse me oute of bonde And .I. wil parte wiþe þe of my fre londe Than seide Adam þat was þe spensere .I. haue serued þi broþer [[? booþer]] þis .xvj. ȝere 404 If .I. lete gone oute of his boure He wolde sei af[te]rward .I. were a traitoure Adam seide Gamelin so brouke .I. myn hals Thou schalt finde my broþe att last riht fals 408 There-fore Adam broþer lese oute of bondes And .I. will part wiþ þe of my fre londes Vp suche forwarde Adam .I.-wisse .I. wil do þer-to al þat me is 412 Adam seide Gamelin as mot .I. þe .I. wil halde þe couenant and þou wil me Anone as Adam lorde to bed was gone Adam toke þe kaye and lete Gamelin oute anone 416
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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