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

The king þought on tresoun / and Gamelyn on noon And went and kist his broþer / and whan þey were at oon Allas ȝonge Gamelyn noþing he ne wiste / wiþ which a false tresoun his broþer him kiste / Line 168
LIþeth and lestneþ and holdeþ ȝour tonge And ȝe schul heere talkyng of Gamelyn þe yonge Ther was þer bysiden cryed a wrastlyng And þerfor þer was sette vp a Ram and a Ryng Line 172 And Gamelyn was in good wil/ to wende þerto / For to preuen his might what he cowþe do Broþer seyde Gamelyn by seynt Richer Thou most lene me to nyȝt // a litel Courser Line 176 That is freisch to the spore on for to ryde I most on an Erande a litel her byside By god seyd his brother of steedes in my stalle Go and chese þe þe best and spare non of alle Line 180 Of steedes or of course þat stonden hem bisyde And tel me goode broþer whider þou wolt ryde ¶ her byside broþer is cryed a wrastlyng And þerfor schal be set vp a Ram and a Ryng Line 184 Moche worschip it were broþer to vs alle Might I þe Ram and þe Ryng bryng home to þis halle A steede þer was sadeled smertely and skeet Gamelyn did a paire spores fast on his feet Line 188 he set his foot in styrop / þe steede he bystrood And toward þe wrastelyng þe ȝonge child rood Tho Gamelyn þe yonge was ride out at þe gate [folio 61b] The fals kniȝt his broþer lokked it after þate Line 192 And bysoughte ihū crist þat is heuen kyng he mighte breke his nekke in þat wrastlyng As sone as Gamelyn com þer þe place was / he lighte doun of his steede and stood on þe gras / Line 196 And þer he herd a Frankeleyn wayloway syng And bigan bitterly his hondes for to wryng Goode man seyde Gamelyn why makestow þis fare Is þer no man þat may ȝou helpe out of þis care Line 200
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The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1885.

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