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

                                
                                  Ow . seyde Gamelyn so brouk I my bon
                                
                                  Now I haue aspyed þat freendes haue I non
                                
                                  Cursed mot he worþe boþe fleisch and blood
                                
                                  That euer do Priour or abbot ony good
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                                  Adam þe Spencer took vp þe cloþ
                                
                                  And loked on Gamelyn and say þat he was wroth
                                
                                  Adam on þe pantrye litel he þought / [folio 65b] 
                                
                                  But tuo goode staues to hall dore he brouȝt
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                                  Adam loked on Gamelyn and he was war anoon
                                
                                  And cast awey þe feteres and he bigan to goon
                                
                                  Tho he com to adam he took þat oo staf
                                
                                  And bygan to worche and goode strokes ȝaf
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                                  Gamelyn cam into þe halle and þe spencer boþe
                                
                                  And loked hem aboute as þey had be wroþe
                                
                                  Gamelyn sprengeþ holywater wiþ an Oken spire ./
                                
                                  That some þat stoode vpright fel in þe fire
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                                  Ther was no lewede man þat in þe halle stood
                                
                                  That wolde do Gamelyn eny þing but good
                                
                                  But stood besyde and leet hem boþe werche
                                
                                  For þey hadde no rewþe of men of holy cherche
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                                  Abbot or priour monk or Chanoun
                                
                                  That Gamelyn ouertok anon þey ȝeeden doun
                                
                                  Ther was non of hem alle þat wiþ his staf mette
                                
                                  That he made him ouerþrowe and quyt him his dette
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                                  Gamelyn seyde adam for seynte charite
                                
                                  Pay large lyuerey for þe loue of me
                                
                                  And I wil kepe þe dore so euer here I masse /
                                
                                  Er þey ben assoyled þere schan noon passe
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                                  Dowt þe nought seyde Gamelyn whil we ben in feere
                                
                                  kep þou wel þe dore / and I wol werche heere
                                
                                  Stere þe good adam and lat þer noon flee
                                
                                  And we schul telle largely how many þer be
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                                  Gamelyn seyde adam do hem but good
                                
                                  Þey ben men of holy chirche / draw of hem no blood
                                
                                  Saue wel þe croune and do hem non harmes
                                
                                  But brek boþe her legges and siþþen here armes

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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 143
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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