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

                                
                                  He vn-lokked Gamelin boþe hondes and fete
                                
                                  In hope of avauncement þat he him be-hete
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelin þonkede be goddes sonde
                                
                                  Now .I. am louse boþe fote and honde
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                                  Had .I. nowe eten and dronken a-riht
                                
                                  Þere is none in þis hous schold binde me þis nyht
                                
                                  Adam toke Gamelin stil as any stone
                                
                                  And ladde him into þe spence rapeli a-none
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                                  And set him to soper riht in a priue stede [folio 59b] 
                                
                                  And badd him do gladly . and Gamelin so dede
                                
                                  Anone as Gameline had ete wel and fine
                                
                                  Therto he dronke wele of þe rede wine
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                                  Adam seide Gamelin what is nowe þi rede
                                
                                  Where .I. go to my broþer and gerde of his hede
                                
                                  Gamelyn seide Adam it schal nouhte be so
                                
                                  .I. kan teche þe a rede þat is worþe tuo
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                                  .I. wote wele for soþe þat þis is no naie
                                
                                  We schal haue a maungeri riht on sonondaye
                                
                                  Abbotes and priours mony her schal be
                                
                                  And oþer men of holy cherche as .I. tell þe
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                                  Þou schalt stonde vp be þe post as þu were bounde fast
                                
                                  And .I. schal leue þeim vnloke þat awaye þou maie hem cast
                                
                                  Whan þat þei haue eten and wasschen her hondes
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                                  Thou schalt be-seke hem al to bringe þe oute of bondes
                                
                                  And if þei will borwe þe þat were good gamme
                                
                                  Þan were oute of prison . and .I. owte of blame
                                
                                  And if iche of hem seie to vs naie
                                
                                  .I. schal do anoþer .I. swer be þis daie
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                                  Thou schalt haue a goode staf and .I. wil haue a-noþer
                                
                                  And cristes curs þat on haue þat faileþ þe tother
                                
                                  Ȝe for god seid Gamelin .I. saie it for me
                                
                                  If .I. faile on my side yuel mot .I. þe
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                                  .If. we schol algate assoile hem of her sinne
                                
                                  Warne me broþe Adam whan we schal be-ginne
                                
                                  Gamelin seide Adam be seinte charité
                                
                                  .I. wil warne þe be-forne whan it schal be

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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 141
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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