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

                                
                                  The Iustice satt still and rose nouht anone
                                
                                  And Gamelin cleue his cheke bone.
                                
                                  Gamelin toke him in his armes and no more spak [folio 64b] 
                                
                                  Bot þroue him ouer þe barre and his arme to-brak
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                                  Dorst none to Gameline seie bot gode
                                
                                  ffor ferde of þe compaignie þat wiþ-oute stode
                                
                                  Gamelin set him doune in þe Iustice sete
                                
                                  And sir Ote his broþer by him and Adam att his fete
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                                  Herke of bourde þat Gamelin dede
                                
                                  He þouht for to make hem riht sore adrede
                                
                                  ¶ He lete fetter þe Iustice and his false broþer
                                
                                  And lete hem come to þe barre þe tone wiþ þe toþer
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                                  Tho Gamelin had þus done he no rest
                                
                                  To he had enquered who was on þe quost
                                
                                  ffor to demen his broþer sir Ote for to honge
                                
                                  Or he wiste whiche þei were he þouht ful longe
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                                  Bot as son as Gamelin wist where þei were
                                
                                  He dide hem euery-chon fetter in fere
                                
                                  And bringe hem to þe barre and sett hem on rewe
                                
                                  Be my faiþe seide Iustice þe scherreue is a schrewe
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                                  Than seide Gamelin to þe Iustice
                                
                                  Thou hast ȝeue domes of þe werst assise
                                
                                  And þe .xij. sisours þat weren on þe queste
                                
                                  Thei schal ben an-hanged þis daie so haue .I. goode reste
                                
                                  Than seide þe scherreue to ȝonge Gameline
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                                  Lorde .I. crie þe Mercye broþe art þou myne
                                
                                  Ther-fore seide Gamelin haue þou goddes curs
                                
                                  ffor and þou were Meister ȝit .I. scholde haue wors
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                                  ffor to make schort tale and nouht to longe
                                
                                  He ordeyned him a queste of his men so stronge
                                
                                  The Iustice and þe scherreve boþ hongede hihe
                                
                                  To veyven wiþe þe ropes . and wiþ þe wynde drye
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                                  And þe .xij. sisours sorwe haue þei þat rekke
                                
                                  All þei were hanged fast be þe nekke
                                
                                  Thus endeþ þe false knyht wiþ his trecherie
                                
                                  That euer hade ladde his lif in falsnes and in folye

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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 153
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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