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

                                
                                  The porter had be-holde hem a litel while
                                
                                  He loued wele Gamelin an was drad of gile:
                                
                                  An lete þe wyket stonde ful still
                                
                                  And asked hem þer-out what was here will
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                                  ffor al þe grete Compaigny þan spak bot one
                                
                                  Vndo þe gate Portier and latt vs inn goone
                                
                                  Then seide þe porter so brouke .I. my chinne
                                
                                  Ȝe schal sei ȝoure erant er þat ȝe comme inne
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                                  Sei to Gamelin and to Adam . if þeire will be
                                
                                  We wolde speke withe hem tuo wordes or þre
                                
                                  ffelaw saide þe portier stonde þer still
                                
                                  An .I. wil wende to Gamelin to weten his will
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                                  In wente þe portier to Gamelin a-none
                                
                                  And seide sire .I. warne ȝowe here be commen ȝoure fone
                                
                                  The scherrefs men ben att gate
                                
                                  ffor to take ȝoue boþe schal ȝe nouht skape
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                                  Portier seide Gamelin . So mot .I. wel þe
                                
                                  .I. will allowe þe þi wordes whan .I. mi time see
                                
                                  Go aȝein to gate and dwel wiþ hem a while
                                
                                  And þou schal see riht sone porter a gile
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                                  Adam seide Gamelin loke þe to gone
                                
                                  We haue fomen att gate and frendes neuer one
                                
                                  It buen þe schirreues men þa hider bue come
                                
                                  Þei be sworre to-geder þat we schal be nomme
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                                  Gameline seide Adam hie þe riht be liue
                                
                                  And if .I. faile þe þis daie yuel mot .I. þriue
                                
                                  And we schol so wel-come þe scherreues men
                                
                                  That som of hem shal make here beddes in þe fen
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                                  A good Cart staf in his honde he hent
                                
                                  Gamelin and att postern gate oute he wente
                                
                                  Adam hent sone a-noþer good staf
                                
                                  ffor to helpen gamelin and goode strokes ȝaf
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                                  Adam felde tweine and Gameline felled þre
                                
                                  Þe toþer sett fete on erþe and gan to fle
                                
                                  What saide Adam so euer here .I. masse [folio 61b] 
                                
                                  .I. haue riht goode wyne drinke ar ȝe passe

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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 145
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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