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

                                
                                  ¶ Nowe seide Gamelin so brouke .I. my bone
                                
                                  Nowe .I. haue aspied þat frendes haue .I. none
                                
                                  Cursed mot he worþe boþe flesche and blode
                                
                                  Þat euere doþe Priour or Abbot any goode
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                                  Adam þe spencer toke vp þe cloþe
                                
                                  And loked vpon Gamelin . and sawhe þat he was wroþe
                                
                                  Adam on þe Pantri litel he þouht
                                
                                  Bot tuo goode staues to hall dore he brouht
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                                  Adam loked on gamelin . and he was war anone
                                
                                  And keste awaye þe fetteres and be-gan to gone
                                
                                  Tho he cam to Adam he toke þe toke þe to staf
                                
                                  And be-gan to wirche and goode strokes ȝaf
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                                  Gameline cam into þe hall and þe spenser boþe
                                
                                  And loked hem aboute as þei had be riht wroþe
                                
                                  Gamelin sprengeþ holy water with an oken spire
                                
                                  Than sum þat stod vp right ffellen in þe fire
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                                  Ther was no lewe man þat in þe hall stode
                                
                                  That wolde do Gamelin any þinge bot gode
                                
                                  Bot stoden be side and lete boþe worche
                                
                                  ffor þei had no rewþe of men of holy cherche.
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                                  Abbot or priour Monke or Chanoune [folio 60b] 
                                
                                  That Gamelin ouere toke a-none þei ȝeden downe
                                
                                  Thar was none of hem al þat wiþ his staf mette
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                                  Þat he ne maade hem ouer þrowe . and qwite hem his dette
                                
                                  Gamelin seide Adam for seint Charité
                                
                                  Pay good liuere for þe loue of me
                                
                                  And .I. kepe þe dore so euer her .y. masse
                                
                                  Er þei bene assoiled schal þer non passe
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                                  Dowte þe nouht seide Gamelin while we ben in fere
                                
                                  Kepe þou wel þe dore and .I. wirche here
                                
                                  Stere goode Adam and latt þere none fle
                                
                                  And we schol tel largely hou mony þer be
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                                  Gamelin seide Adam do hem bot goode
                                
                                  Thei bue men of holy cherche drawe of hem no blode
                                
                                  Saue wele þe croune . and done hem none harmes
                                
                                  Bot breke boþe here legges and sithen here armes

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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 143
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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