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

                                
                                  To þe kinges prison he his ynomme
                                
                                  And þere he schal abide vnto þe iustice come
                                
                                  Pardie seide sire Ote Better it schall be
                                
                                  .I. bidde him to mainprise þat þou graunt to me
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                                  Til þe next siteinge of deliuerance
                                
                                  And lat þat Gamelin stonde to his chaunce
                                
                                  Broþe in suche a forward .I. take him to þe
                                
                                  And be þi faderes soule þat be-ȝate þe and me
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                                  Bot he be redi whan þe Iustice sitte
                                
                                  Þou schalt bere þe Iuggement for all þi grete witte
                                
                                  .I. graunt wele quod sire ote þat it so be
                                
                                  Lat do liuer him a-none and tak him to me
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                                  Tho was Gameline deliuerde to sir Ote his broþer
                                
                                  And þat nyht dwelden þe tone wiþ þe toþere
                                
                                  On þe morwe seide Gamelin to sir Ote þe hende
                                
                                  Broþe he seide .I. mot for soþe fro þe wende
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                                  To loke how my ȝonge men leden here lif
                                
                                  Wheþer þei leuen in ioye or elles in strif
                                
                                  Be gode seide sir hote þat is a colde rede
                                
                                  Now .I. see þat al þe carke schal fal on myne hede
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                                  ffor whan þe Iustice sitte and þou be nouht yfounde
                                
                                  .I. schal anone be taken and in þi stede ybounde
                                
                                  Broþer seide Gamelin dismaie þe nouht
                                
                                  ffor be seint Iame in Galeis þat mony men haþ souht
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                                  If þat god almyhty holde me my lif and witte [folio 63b] 
                                
                                  .I. wil be þere redy whan þe Iustice sitte
                                
                                  Than seide sir Ote til gamelin god schelde þe fro schame
                                
                                  Com whan þou seest time and bringe vs oute of blame
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  ¶ Gamelin went þo vnder wode rise
                                
                                  And fonde þere playinge men of prise
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                                  Tho was ȝonge Gamelin riht glad ynouhe
                                
                                  Whanne he fonde his men vnder woode bouhe
                                
                                  Gamelin and his men talken in fere
                                
                                  And þei had good Game here maister to here

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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 150
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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