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

                                
                                  Than seide þe maister kinge of owtelauwes
                                
                                  What seke ȝe ȝongmen vnder wodee schawes
                                
                                  Gamelin ansewarde þe kinge wiþ his croune
                                
                                  He moste nedes walke in wode þat maye nouht walke in toune
                                
                                  Sire we walke nouht here men harme to do
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                                  Bot if wee mete a dere to schete þer to
                                
                                  As men þat bene hungri and maie no mete finde
                                
                                  And bene harde bestade vnder wode linde
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                                  Of Gamelyne wordes þe maister had reuþe
                                
                                  He seide sche schal haue .I.-nouhe haue god my treuþe
                                
                                  He bad hem sette doune for to take rest [folio 62b] 
                                
                                  And bad ete and dringe and þat of þe best
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                                  As þei eten and dronken wele and fine
                                
                                  Than seide þe tone to þe toþer þis is Gameline
                                
                                  Tho was þe Maister owtelawe into counseile nome
                                
                                  And tolde howe it was Gamelin was þeder come
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                                  Anone as he herde howe it was be-fal
                                
                                  He maade him maister vnder him ouere hem al
                                
                                  Wiþ-inne þe þred weke him cam tidynge
                                
                                  Tho þe maister owtlawe þat was here kinge
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                                  Þat he scholde come home his pes was made
                                
                                  And of þe goode tiþinge he was ful glade
                                
                                  Tho seide he to his ȝonge men soþe to tell
                                
                                  Me be commen tiþinges .I. maie no longer duel.
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                                  Tho was Gameline anone wiþ-oute taryinge
                                
                                  Maade Maister owteley . and crouned here kinge
                                
                                  Tho was Gamelin crounede kinge of outelawes
                                
                                  And walked a while vnder wode schawes
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                                  The false knyht his broþer was scherreue of þe schire
                                
                                  And lete his broþer endite for hate and for ire
                                
                                  Tho were his bondemen sori and nouht gladde
                                
                                  Whan Gamelin her lorde was cried wolueshed and maade
                                
                                  And sent oute of his men wher þei myht him finde
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                                  ffor to seke Gamelin vnder wode linde
                                
                                  To tel him tiþinge þe winde was went
                                
                                  And al his goode reued and his men schent

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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 148
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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