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

                                
                                  Naie be god seide þei þi drinke is not goode
                                
                                  It wold make mannes brayne to lye in his hode
                                
                                  Gamelin stoode still and loked him aboute
                                
                                  And sawhe þe scherreue come wiþ a grete route
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                                  Adam seide Gameline whate be nowe þi redes
                                
                                  Here comeþ þe scherreue and wil haue oure hedes
                                
                                  Adam seide to Gamelin my rede is nowe þis
                                
                                  Abide we no longer lest we fare a mys
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                                  .I rede þat we to woode gone ar þat we be founde
                                
                                  Better is þer louse þan in toune bounde
                                
                                  Adam toke be þe honde ȝonge gamelin
                                
                                  And eyþer of hem dranke a drauht of wyne
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                                  And after token her cours and wenten her waie
                                
                                  Tho fonde þe scherref nest bot no naie
                                
                                  Þe scherref lyht doune And went in to þe hall
                                
                                  And fonde þe lorde fetterd fast wiþ all
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                                  The scherreve vnfetterd him riht sone anone
                                
                                  And sent after a leche to helen his rigge bone
                                
                                  Late we nowe þe false knyht lyhe in his care
                                
                                  And talke we of Gamelin and loke howe he fare
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                                  Gamelin in to þe wode stalkeþ still
                                
                                  And Adam spencer loked riht ill
                                
                                  Adam swore to Gamelin be seinte Richere
                                
                                  Nowe .I. se it is mery to be a spensere
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                                  That me were leuer kaye to bere
                                
                                  Than walken in þis wilde wode my cloþe to tere
                                
                                  Adam seide Gameline dismaie ȝe riht nouht
                                
                                  Many good mannes childe in care is brouht
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                                  As þei stode talkinge boþe in fere
                                
                                  Adam herde talkinge of men and nyhe hem þouht he were
                                
                                  Tho Gamelin vnder wode loked ariht
                                
                                  .Vij. score of ȝonge men he sawe wele a-diht
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                                  All satt att mete compas aboute
                                
                                  Adam seide Gamelin nowe haue ȝe no doute
                                
                                  After bale comes bote þoruht goddes myht
                                
                                  Me þe þinkeþ þat of mete and drinke .I. haue a siht

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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 146
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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