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

                                
                                  They tolden him of auentures þat þey hadde founde /
                                
                                  And Gamelyn hem tolde aȝein how he was fast I-bounde
                                
                                  whil Gamelyn was outlawed had he no cors
                                
                                  There was no man þat for him ferde þe wors
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                                  But abbotes and priours monk and Chanoun
                                
                                  On hem left he no þing whan he might hem nom
                                
                                  whil Gamelyn and his men made merþes ryue
                                
                                  The fals knight his broþer yuel mot he þryue /
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                                  For he was fast about boþe day and oþer
                                
                                  For to hyre þe quest to hangen his broþer
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood on a day and as he biheeld
                                
                                  The woodes and þe schawes in þe wilde feeld
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                                  he þought on his broþer how he him beheet
                                
                                  That he wolde be redy whan þe Iustice seet
                                
                                  he þoughte wel þat he wolde wiþoute delay
                                
                                  Come afore þe Iustice to kepen his day
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                                  And seide to his ȝonge men dighteþ ȝou ȝare /
                                
                                  For whan þe Iustice sitt we moote be þare /
                                
                                  For I am vnder borwe til þat I come /
                                
                                  And my broþer for me to prisoun schal be nome /
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                                  By seint Iame seyde his ȝonge men and þou rede þerto
                                
                                  Ordeyne how it schal be and it schal be do /
                                
                                  whil Gamelyn was comyng þer þe Iustice sat/
                                
                                  The fals knight his broþer forȝat he nat þat [folio 69b] 
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                                  To huyre þe men on his quest to hangen his broþer
                                
                                  Though he hadde nought þat oon he wolde haue þat oþer
                                
                                  Tho cam Gamelyn fro vnder woode Rys
                                
                                  And broughte wiþ him / his ȝonge men of prys
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                                  ¶ I se wel seyde Gamelyn þe Iustice is sette
                                
                                  Go aforn adam and loke how it spette /
                                
                                  Adam went in to þe halle and loked al aboute
                                
                                  he seyh þere stonde lordes gret and stoute /
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                                  And sir Ote his broþer fetered wel fast
                                
                                  Þo went adam out of halle as he were agast
                                
                                  Adam said to Gamelyn and to his felaws alle
                                
                                  Sir Ote stant I-fetered in þe moot halle

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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 151
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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