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

                                
                                  ¶ whan þey had him founde on knees þey hem sette /
                                
                                  And a-doun wiþ here hood and here lord grette /
                                
                                  Sire wraþþe ȝou nought for þe goode roode /
                                
                                  For we haue brought ȝou tydynges but þey be nat goode
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                                  Now is þy broþer scherreue and haþ þe baillye
                                
                                  And he haþ endited þe and wolues-heed doþ þe crie
                                
                                  ¶ Allas seyde Gamelyn þat euer I was so slak
                                
                                  Þat I ne hadde broke his nekke þo his Rigge brak
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                                  Goþ greteþ hem wel myn housbondes and wyf
                                
                                  I wol ben atte nexte schire haue god my lyf
                                
                                  Gamelyn came wel redy to þe nexte schire/
                                
                                  And þer was his broþer boþe lord and sire /
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                                  Gamelyn com boldelych in to þe moot halle
                                
                                  And put a doun his hood among þe lordes alle
                                
                                  God saue ȝou alle lordynges þat now here be
                                
                                  But Brokebak Scherreue euel mot þou þe /
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                                  why hast þou do me þat schame and vilonye /
                                
                                  For to late endite me and woluesheed me crye
                                
                                  Tho þought þe fals knight for to ben awreke [folio 68b] 
                                
                                  And leet take Gamelyn most he nomore speke
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                                  Might þer be nomore grace but Gamelyn atte last
                                
                                  was cast in to prisoun and fetered ful fast
                                
                                  Gamelyn haþ a broþer þat highte sir Ote
                                
                                  As good a knight and heende as mighte gon on foote
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                                  Anon þer ȝede a messager to þat goode knight
                                
                                  And told him altogidere how Gamelyn was dight
                                
                                  Anon as sire Ote herde how Gamelyn was a dight
                                
                                  he was wonder sory was he no þing light
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                                  And leet sadle a steede and þe way he nam
                                
                                  And to his tweyne breþeren anon right he cam
                                
                                  Sire seyde sire Ote to þe scherreue þo /
                                
                                  we ben but thre breþeren schul we neuer be mo
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                                  And þou hast y-prisoned þe best of vs alle /
                                
                                  Swich anoþer broþer yuel mot him bifalle
                                
                                  Sire Ote seide þe fals knight lat be þi curs /
                                
                                  By god for þy wordes he schal fare þe wurs

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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 149
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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