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

                                
                                  Al þe whil þat Gamelyn heeld his mangerye
                                
                                  his broþer þought on him be wreke / wiþ his treccherie
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyns gestes were riden and I-goon
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood allone frendes had he noon
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                                  Tho after ful soone wiþinne a litel stounde
                                
                                  Gamelyn was I-take and ful hard I-bounde
                                
                                  Forþ com þe fals knight out of þe selleer
                                
                                  To Gamelyn his broþer he ȝede ful neer
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                                  And sayde to Gamelyn who made þe so bold
                                
                                  For to stroye my stoor of myn houshold
                                
                                  Broþer seyde Gamelyn wraþþe þe right nouȝt
                                
                                  For it is many day I-gon siþþen it was bouȝt
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                                  For broþer þou hast I-had by seynt richer
                                
                                  Of xv. plowes of lond þis .xvj. ȝer
                                
                                  And of alle þe beestes þou hast forþ bred
                                
                                  That my fader me biquath on his deth bed
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                                  Of al þis xvj. ȝeer I ȝeue þe þe prow
                                
                                  For þe mete and þe drynk þat we haue spended now /
                                
                                  Thanne seyde þe fals knyȝt euel mot he the
                                
                                  Herkne broþer Gamelyn what I wol ȝeue þe
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                                  For of my body broþer geten heir haue I noon
                                
                                  I wil make þe myn heir I swere by seint Iohn
                                
                                  Par ma foy sayd Gamelyn and if it so be
                                
                                  And þou þenke as þou seyst god ȝelde it þe
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                                  No þing wiste Gamelyn of his broþeres gyle
                                
                                  Therfore he him bigyled in a litel while
                                
                                  Gamelyn seyde he o thing/ I þe telle
                                
                                  Tho þou þrewe my porter in þe draw-welle
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                                  I swor in þat wraþþe and in þat grete moot
                                
                                  That þou schuldest be bounde boþe hand and foot
                                
                                  Therfore I þe biseche brother Gamelyn
                                
                                  Lat me nought be forsworn broþer art þou myn
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                                  lat me bynde þe now boþe hand and feet
                                
                                  For to holde myn avow as I þe biheet
                                
                                  Broþer sayde Gamelyn also mot I þe
                                
                                  Thou schalt not be forsworen for þe loue of me

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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 139
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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