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

                                
                                  how broþer Gamelyn / how answerest þou now /
                                
                                  þou spake neuer such a word as þou dost now /
                                
                                  By my faith seyde Gamelyn now me þinkeþ neede /
                                
                                  Of alle þe harmes þat I haue I tok neuer ar heede
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                                  My parkes ben tobroken and my deer byreued
                                
                                  Of myn armure and my steedes nought is me bileued
                                
                                  Al þat my fader me byquaþ al goþ to schame /
                                
                                  And þerfor haue þou goddes curs broþer by þy name
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                                  Than byspak his broþer þat rape was of rees /
                                
                                  Stond stille gadelyng / and hold right þy pees /
                                
                                  Thou schalt be fayn for to haue þy mete and þy wede /
                                
                                  what spekest þou Gamelyn of lond oþer of leede
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                                  Thanne seyde Gamelyn þe child þat was ying
                                
                                  Cristes curs mot he haue þat clepeþ me gadelyng
                                
                                  I am no worse gadelyng ne no worse wight
                                
                                  But born of a lady and geten of a knight
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                                  Ne durst he nat to Gamelyn ner a foote go
                                
                                  But clepide to him his men and seyde to hem þo
                                
                                  Goþ and beteþ þis boy and reueþ him his wyt /
                                
                                  And lat him leren anoþer tyme to answere me bet
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                                  Thanne seyde þe child ȝonge Gamelyn
                                
                                  Cristes curs mot þou haue broþer art þou myn
                                
                                  And if I schal algate be beten anon [folio 60b] 
                                
                                  Cristes curs mot þou haue but þou be þat oon
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                                  And anon his broþer in þag grete hete
                                
                                  Made his men to fette staues Gamelyn to bete
                                
                                  whan þat euerich of hem / a staf had I-nome
                                
                                  Gamelyn was war anon þo he seigh hem come
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                                  þo gamelyn seyh hem come / he loked ouer al
                                
                                  And was war of a pestel stood vnder a wal
                                
                                  Gamelyn was light of foot / and þider gan he lepe
                                
                                  And drof alle his broþeres men right on an hepe
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                                  he loked as a wilde lyoun and leyde on good woon
                                
                                  Tho his broþer say þat he bigan to goon ·
                                
                                  he fley vp in til a loft and schette þe dore fast
                                
                                  Thus Gamelyn wiþ þe pestel made hem alle agast

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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 132
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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