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

Allas seyde þis Frankeleyn þat euer was I bore For tweye stalworþe sones / I wene þat I haue lore A Champioun is in þe place / þat haþ I-wrought me sorwe For he haþ slayn my two sones / but if god hem borwe / Line 204 I wold ȝeue ten pound by ihū crist and more wiþ þe nones I fand a man to handil him sore Goode man seyde Gamelyn wilt þou wel doon hold myn hors whil my man draweþ of my schoon · Line 208 And help my man to kepe my cloþes and my steede / And I wil in to place go / to loke if I may speede / By god sayde þe Frankeleyn anon it schal be doon I wil my self be þy man / and drawen of þy schoon Line 212 And wende þou in to þe place / ihū crist þe speede / And drede not of þy cloþes nor of þy goode steede /
BArfoot and vngert . Gamelyn in cam Alle þat weren in þe place heede of him þey nam Line 216 how he durst auntre him of him to doon his might That was so doughty champioun in wrastlyng and in fight vp sterte þe Champioun raply and anoon Toward ȝonge Gamelyn / he bigan to goon Line 220 And sayde who is þy fader and who is þy sire For soþe þou art a gret fool þat þou come hire Gamelyn answerde þe champioun tho þou knewe wel my fader / whil he couþe go Line 224 whiles he was on lyue / by seint martyn Sir Iohn of Boundys was his name and I gamelyn Felaw seyde þe champioun al so mot I þryue I knew wel þy fader whil he was on lyue Line 228 And þiself Gamelyn I wil þat þou it heere [folio 62a] whil þou were a ȝong boy a moche schrewe þou were þan seyde Gamelyn and swor by cristes ore Now I am older woxe þou schalt me fynd a more Line 232 By god sayde þe Champioun welcome mote þou be Come þou ones in myn hond schalt þou neuer þe It was wel wiþinne þe night and þe moone schon whan Gamelyn and þe Champioun to-gider gon to goon Line 236
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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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