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

                                
                                  Thus Gamelin and Adam wrouht riht fast
                                
                                  And pleiden wiþe þe monkes and made hem agast
                                
                                  Theder þei cam rideinge Ioly with swaynes
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                                  And home a-ȝeine þei weren ledde in cartes and in waynes
                                
                                  Tho þei hadden al y-do þo saide a graie frere
                                
                                  Alas sir Abbot what did we nowe here
                                
                                  Tho þat we comen hider it was a colde rede
                                
                                  Vs had be better att home wiþ water and brede
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                                  While Gamelin gaf ordres to monk and to frere
                                
                                  Euer stod his broþer and mad foul chere
                                
                                  Gamelin vp wiþþe his staf þat he wel knewe
                                
                                  And gerd him in þe nekke þat he ouer þrewe
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                                  A litel aboue þe gardel þe rigge bot to-brast
                                
                                  And in þe fetters sette him þer he satt arst
                                
                                  Sitt þer broþer broþer seide Gameline
                                
                                  ffor to coly þi bodi as .I. dide myne
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                                  As swyþe as þei had wroken hem on her fone
                                
                                  The asked water and wissen anone
                                
                                  What som for her loue and sum for awe
                                
                                  Al þe seruantȝ serued ham of þe best lawe
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                                  The schirreue was þen bot .v. mile
                                
                                  And al þis was tolde him in a litel while
                                
                                  Howe Gamelin and Adam had done a sori res
                                
                                  Bounden and wounden men aȝein þe kinges pes
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                                  Tho be-gan son striff for to wake
                                
                                  And þe scherref aboute gameline for to take
                                
                                  ¶ Nowe lyþes and listeneþ so god gif ȝow good fine [folio 61a] 
                                
                                  And ȝe schall here good game of ȝonge Gameline
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                                  ffoure and twenty ȝongemen þat helde hem full bolde
                                
                                  Cam to þe scherreue and seide þat he wold
                                
                                  Gameline and Adam for to fette a-waye
                                
                                  The scherref ȝaue hem leue soþe as .I. ȝowe saye
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                                  Thei hiden fast wolde þei nouht linne
                                
                                  To þei cam to þe gate þer Gamelin was inne
                                
                                  Thei knokken on þe gate þe porter was nyhe
                                
                                  And loked out att an hole as a man þat was slyhe:

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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 144
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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