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

Þey dredden him ful sore for werkes þat he wrouȝte And for þe faire company þat he þider broughte Gamelyn ȝede to þe gate / and leet it vp wyde he leet in alle maner men þat gon in wold or ryde Line 312 And seyde ȝe be welcome wiþouten eny greeue / For we wiln be maistres heer / and aske no man leue / Ȝestirday I lefte / seyde ȝonge Gamelyn· In my broþer Seller .v. tonne of wyn Line 316 I wil not þat þis compaignye parten a-twynne / And ȝe wil doon after me while eny sope is þrynne And if my broþer grucche or make foul cheere Line 319 Oþer for spense of mete or drynk þat we spenden heere / I am oure catour / and bere oure aller purs / he schal haue for his grucchyng seint maries curs My broþer is a nyggoun / I swer by cristes ore And we wil spende largely þat he haþ spared ȝore / Line 324 And who þat makeþ grucchyng / þat we here dwelle he schal to þe porter in to þe draw-welle vij. dayes and .vij. nyght Gamelyn held his feste with moche myrþ and solas / þat was þer and no cheste / Line 328 In a litel toret his brother lay I-steke And sey hem wasten his good but durst he not speke Erly on a mornyng on þe viij.e day The gestes come to Gamelyn and wolde gon here way Line 332 Lordes seyde Gamelyn / wil ȝe so hye Al þe wyn is not ȝet y-dronke so brouk I myn ye Gamelyn in his herte was he ful wo whan his gestes took her leue from him for to go Line 336 he wold þey had lenger abide / and þey seyde nay But bitaughte Gamelyn god and good day Thus made Gamelyn his fest / and brought it wel to ende And after his gestys took leue to wende Line 340
LItheþ and lestneþ and holdeþ ȝoure tonge And ȝe schul heere gamen of Gamelyn þe ȝonge / herkneþ lordynges and lesteneþ aright [folio 63b] whan alle gestes were goon how Gamelyn was dight Line 344
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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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