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

Tho seyde þe Champioun so brouk I my sweere he is a fool þat þer of beyeþ / þou sellest it so deere Tho sayde þe Frankeleyn þat was in moche care Felaw he seyde / why lakkest þou his ware / Line 276 By seynt Iame in Galys þat many man haþ sought Ȝet it is to good cheep þat þou hast I-bought Tho þat wardeynes were of þat wrastlyng Come and broughte Gamelyn þe Ram and þe Ryng Line 280 And seyden haue Gamelyn þe Ryng and þe Ram For þe best wrasteler þat euer here cam· Thus wan Gamelyn þe Ram and þe Ryng And wente wiþ moche ioye home in þe mornyng Line 284 His broþer seih wher he cam with þe grete rowte / And bad schitte þe gate and holde him wiþoute The porter of his lord was ful sore agast And stert anon to þe gate and lokked it fast Line 288
NOw litheþ and lestneþ boþe ȝong and olde And ȝe schul heere gamen of Gamelyn þe bolde Gamelyn com þerto for to haue comen In. And þanne was it I-schet faste wiþ a pyn Line 292 Than seyde Gamelyn porter vndo þe yate For many good mannes sone stondeþ þer-ate Than answerd þe porter and swor by goddes berd Thow ne schalt Gamelyn come in to þis ȝerde Line 296 Thow lixt sayde Gamelyn so browke I my chyn he smot þe wyket wiþ his foot and brak awey þe pyn The porter seyh þo it might no better be He sette foot on erþe he bigan to flee Line 300 By my faiþ seyde Gamelyn þat trauail is I-lore For I am of foot as light as þou þough þou haddest swore Gamelyn ouertook þe porter and his teene wrak And gert him in þe nekke þat þe bon tobrak Line 304 And took him by þat oon arm and þrew him in a welle [folio 63a] Seuen fadmen it was deep . as I haue herd telle / whan Gamelyn þe yonge þus hadde pleyd his play Alle þat in þe ȝerde were drewen hem a way Line 308
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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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