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

                                
                                  He vnlokked Gamelyn boþe hand and feet
                                
                                  In hope of auauncement þat he him byheet
                                
                                  Than seyde Gamelyn þanked be goddes sonde [folio 64b] 
                                
                                  Now I am loosed boþe foot and honde /
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                                  had I now eten and dronken aright
                                
                                  Ther is noon in þis hous schulde bynde me þis night
                                
                                  Adam took Gamelyn as stille as ony stoon
                                
                                  And ladde him into spence rapely and anon
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                                  And sette him to soper right in a priue stede
                                
                                  he bad him do gladly and Gamelyn so dede
                                
                                  Anon as gamelyn hadde eten wel & fyn
                                
                                  And þerto y-dronke wel of þe rede wyn
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn what is now þy reed
                                
                                  wher I go to my broþer and girde of his heed
                                
                                  Gamelyn seyde adam it schal not be so
                                
                                  I can teche þe a reed þat is worþ þe two
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                                  I wot wel for soþe þat þis is no nay
                                
                                  we schul haue a mangery right on sonday
                                
                                  Abbotes and priours many heer schal be
                                
                                  And oþer men of holy chirche as I telle þe /
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                                  Thow schalt stonde vp by þe post as þou were hond-fast/
                                
                                  And I schal leue hem vnloke awey þou may hem cast
                                
                                  whan þat þey haue eten and waisschen here hondes
                                
                                  Thou schalt biseke hem alle to bryng þe out of bondes
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                                  And if þey wille borwe þe þat were good game
                                
                                  Then were þou out of prisoun and I out of blame
                                
                                  And if euerich of hem say vnto vs nay
                                
                                  I schal do anoþer I swere by þis day
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                                  Thou schalt haue a good staf and I wil haue anoþer
                                
                                  And cristes curs haue þat oon þat faileþ þat oþer
                                
                                  Ȝe for gode sayde Gamelyn I say it for me
                                
                                  If I fayle on my syde yuel mot I þe
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                                  If we schul algate assoile hem of here synne
                                
                                  warne me broþer adam whan I schal bygynne
                                
                                  Gamelyn seyde adam by seynte charite
                                
                                  I wil warne þe byforn whan þat it schal be

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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 141
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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