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

                                
                                  Than seide þe maister kyng of outlawes
                                
                                  what seeke ȝe ȝonge men vnder woode schawes
                                
                                  Gamelyn answerde þe kyng wiþ his croune /
                                
                                  he moste needes walke in woode þat may not walke in towne /
                                
                                  Sire we walke not heer noon harm for to do
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                                  But if we meete wiþ a deer to scheete þerto /
                                
                                  As men þat ben hungry and mow no mete fynde
                                
                                  And ben harde bystad vnder woode lynde
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                                  Of Gamelynes wordes þe maister hadde rouþe /
                                
                                  And seyde ȝe schal haue ynough haue god my trouþe /
                                
                                  he bad hem sitte þer adoun for to take reste /
                                
                                  And bad hem  [[? MS. eite]] ete and drynke and þat of þe beste /
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                                  As þey sete and eeten and dronke wel and fyn ·
                                
                                  Than seyd þat oon to þat oþer / þis is Gamelyn.
                                
                                  Tho was þe maister outlawe in to counseil nome
                                
                                  And told how it was Gamelyn þat þider was I-come /
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                                  Anon as he herde how it was bifalle [folio 68a] 
                                
                                  he made him maister vnder him ouer hem alle /
                                
                                  wiþin þe þridde wyke him com tydyng
                                
                                  To þe maister outlawe þat þo was her kyng
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                                  That he schulde come hom his pees was I-made
                                
                                  And of þat goode tydyng he was þo ful glad
                                
                                  Tho seyde he to his ȝonge men soþ for to telle /
                                
                                  Me ben comen tydynges I may no lenger dwelle /
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                                  Tho was Gamelyn anon wiþoute taryyng
                                
                                  Made maister outlawe and crouned her kyng
                                
                                  ¶ Tho was Gamelyn crouned kyng of outlawes
                                
                                  And walked a while vnder woode schawes
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                                  The fals knight his broþer was scherreue and sire
                                
                                  And leet his broþer endite for hate and for Ire /
                                
                                  Tho were his bonde-men sory and noþing glade
                                
                                  whan Gamelyn her lord wolues-heed was cryed & made
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                                  And sente out of his men wher þey might him fynde
                                
                                  For to seke Gamelyn vnder woode lynde /
                                
                                  To telle him tydynges how þe wynd was went
                                
                                  And al his good reued and his men schent

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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 148
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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