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

                                
                                  Whan þe hadden him founde on knees þei hem setten
                                
                                  And a-doune wiþ here hode and here lorde gretten.
                                
                                  Sir wraþþe ȝou nouht for þe goode rode
                                
                                  ffor we haue brouhte ȝowe tiþinges bot þei be nouȝt goode
                                
                                  Nowe is þi broþe scherreue and haþe þe baille
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                                  And haþe enditede þe and wolues-hed doþe þe crie
                                
                                  Allas seide Gamelin þat euer .I. was so slakke
                                
                                  Þat .I. ne hadde broke his nekke . þo .I. his rigge brakke
                                
                                  Go greteþ wele myne husbondes and wif
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                                  .I. wil bene att þe next schire haue god my lif
                                
                                  Gamelyn cam wel redy to þe next schire
                                
                                  And þer was his broþer boþe lorde and sire
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                                  Gamelin cam boldely in to þe mote hall
                                
                                  And put adoune his hode a-monge þe lordes all
                                
                                  God saue ȝowe lordeinges þat nowe here be
                                
                                  Bot brokebakke scherreue yuel most þou þe
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                                  Whi haste þou do me þat schame and velanye [folio 63a] 
                                
                                  ffor to late endite me and wolues-hede do me crye
                                
                                  Tho þouht þe fals knyht for to be awreke
                                
                                  And lete take Gameline most he nomore speke
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                                  Miht þere be no grace bot Gamelin att þe last
                                
                                  Was cast in to prison and fetterd fast
                                
                                  Gameline haþe a broþer þat hiht sir Ote
                                
                                  A goode knyht and hende as miht gone on fote
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                                  Anone ȝede a messagier to þat good knyht
                                
                                  And tolde hem al togeder howe Gameline was diht
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  He was riht sorie was he noþinge liht
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                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  And to his tweine breþer ful sone he came
                                
                                  Sir seide sir Ote to þe Scherref þoo
                                
                                  We bene bot þree breþern schal we neuer be mo
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                                  And þou hast prisoned þe best of all
                                
                                  Suche a-noþer Iuel mot him befall
                                
                                  Sire Ote, seide þe false knyht lat be þi curs
                                
                                  Be god for þi wordes he schal fare þe wurs

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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 149
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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