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

                                
                                  Ȝonge men seide Gamelin þis here ȝe alle
                                
                                  Howe sir Ote stant fetterd in þe mote halle
                                
                                  If god ȝife vs grace wele for to do
                                
                                  He schal it a-bigge þat brouht it þer-to
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                                  Than seide Adam þot lokkes had hore
                                
                                  Cristes curs mot he haue þat him bonde so sore
                                
                                  And þou wilte Gamelin do after my rede
                                
                                  Þare is none in þe hall schal bere awaie his hede
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                                  Adam seide Gamelin we wil nouht do soo
                                
                                  We wil sle þe Giltif and late þe oþere goo
                                
                                  .I. wil into þe hall and wiþ þe Iustice speke
                                
                                  On hem þat ben Giltif .I. wil bene awreke
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                                  Lat none scape att þe dore takeþ ȝonge men ȝeme
                                
                                  ffor .I. wil be Iustice þis daie domes to deme
                                
                                  God spede me þis daye att my newe werke
                                
                                  Adam Com þou wiþ me for þou schal be my clerke
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                                  His men Anseward him and bad him done his best
                                
                                  And if þou to vs haue ne le þou schal finde vs preste
                                
                                  We wil stand wiþ þe while þat we maie dure
                                
                                  And bot we wirken manly paie vs non hire
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                                  Ȝonge men seide Gameline so mote .I. wel þe
                                
                                  As trusti a maister schal ȝe finde on me
                                
                                  Riht þere þe Iustice satte in þe hall
                                
                                  In went Gamelin a-monge hem all
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                                  Gamelin lete vn-fetter his broþer oute of bende
                                
                                  Than seide sir Oke his broþer þat was hende
                                
                                  Thou haddest al-most gamelin dwelled to longe
                                
                                  ffor þe quest is oute for me þat .I. scholde be honge
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                                  Broþer seide Gamelin so god gif me gode rest
                                
                                  Þis daie þei schal be hongede þat bene on þi queste
                                
                                  And þe Iustice boþe þat is þe Iugge man
                                
                                  And þe scherreue boþe þoruh him it be-ganne
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                                  Than seide Gamelin to þe Iustice
                                
                                  Nowe is þi power done þou most nedes a-rise
                                
                                  Thou hast ȝeue domes þat bene yuel diht
                                
                                  .I. wil sitten in þi sette and dressen hem a-riht

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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 152
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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