Nay by god sayde þay / þy drynk is not good
It wolde make mannes brayn to lien in his hood
Gamelyn stood stille and loked him aboute
And seih þe scherreue come with a gret route /
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Adam seyde Gamelyn what be now þy reedes
Here comþ þe scherreue and wil haue oure heedes
Adam sayde Gamelyn my reed is now þis
Abide we no lenger lest we fare amys
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I rede þat we to wode goon ar þat we be founde
Better is vs þer loos þan in town y-bounde /
Adam took by þe hond ȝonge Gamelyn
And euerich of hem tuo drank a draught of wyn
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And after took her coursers and wenten her way [folio 67a]
Tho fond þe scherreue nest but non ay
The scherreue lighte a-doun and went in to þe halle /
And fond þe lord y-fetered faste wiþ alle/
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The scherreue vnfetered him sone and þat anoon
And sent after a leche to hele his rigge boon
LEte we now þis fals knight . lyen in his care
And talke we of Gamelyn and loke how he fare
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Gamelyn in to þe woode stalkede stille
And adam þe Spenser liked ful ylle /
Adam swor to Gamelyn by seynt Richer
Now I see it is mery to be a Spencer
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That leuer me were / keyes for to bere /
Than walken in þis wilde woode my clothes to tere /
Adam seyde Gamelyn dismaye þe right nought
Many good mannes child in care is I-brought
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And as þey stoode talkyng boþen in feere /
Adam herd talkyng of men and neyh him þought þei were
Tho Gamelyn vnder þe woode loked aright
vij. score of ȝonge men he saugh wel a dight
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Alle satte atte mete compas aboute /
Adam seyde Gamelyn now haue we no doute
After bale comeþ boote þurgh grace of god almight
Me þynkeþ of mete and drynk þat I haue a sight
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