The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  ¶ Tho þe knyghtes herden / sik þer he lay
                                
                                  hadde þey no reste noþer night ne day
                                
                                  Til þey comen to him þer he lay stille /
                                
                                  On his deþ bedde . to abyde goddes wille
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                                  Þan seyde þe goode knight syk þer he lay
                                
                                  lordes I ȝou warne for soþ wiþoute nay
                                
                                  I may no lengere lyuen heer in þis stounde
                                
                                  For þurgh goddes wille deþ draweth me to grounde
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                                  Ther nas non of hem alle . þat herd him aright
                                
                                  Þat þey hadden reuþe of þat ilke knight
                                
                                  And seyde sir for goddes loue ne dismay ȝou nought
                                
                                  God may do bote of bale þat is now I-wrought
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                                  ¶ Than spak þe goode knight sik þer he lay
                                
                                  Boote of bale god may sende I wot it is no nay
                                
                                  But I byseke ȝou kniȝtes for þe loue of me
                                
                                  Goþ and dresseþ my lond among my sones þre
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                                  And sires for þe loue of god deleþ hem nat amys
                                
                                  And forgetiþ nat Gamelyn my ȝonge sone þat is
                                
                                  Takeþ heed to þat on as wel as to þat oþer [folio 59b] 
                                
                                  Selde ȝe see ony Eyr helpen his broþer
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                                  ¶ þo leete þey þe knight lyen þat was nought in hele /
                                
                                  And wenten in to counseil his londes for to dele /
                                
                                  For to delen hem alle /. to oon þat was her þought
                                
                                  And for Gamelyn was ȝongest / he schuld haue nouȝt
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                                  Al þe lond þat þer was þey dalten it in two
                                
                                  And leeten Gamelyn þe ȝonge wiþoute lond go
                                
                                  And ech of hem seyde to oþer ful lowde
                                
                                  His breþeren might ȝeue him lond whan he good cowde
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                                  whan þey hadde deled þe lond at here wille
                                
                                  þey come aȝein to þe knight þer he lay ful stille
                                
                                  And tolden him anon-right / how þey hadden wrought
                                
                                  And þe knight þere he lay liked it right nought
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                                  Than seyde þe knight / by seynt Martyn
                                
                                  For al þat ȝe haue y-doon ȝit is the lond myn
                                
                                  For goddes loue neyhebours stondeþ alle stille
                                
                                  And I wil dele my lond / after my wille

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 130
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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