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

                                
                                  Ȝonge men seide Gamelyn þis ȝe heeren alle
                                
                                  Sir Ote stant I-fetered in þe moot halle
                                
                                  If God ȝif vs grace wel for to doo
                                
                                  he schal it abegge þat broughte þertoo
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                                  Thanne sayde adam þat lokkes hadde hore /
                                
                                  Cristes curs most he haue þat him bond so sore
                                
                                  And þou wilt Gamelyn do after my red
                                
                                  Ther is noon in þe halle schal bere a-wey his heed
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn we wilne nought don so /
                                
                                  we wil slee þe giltyf and lat þe oþer go
                                
                                  I wil in to þe halle /and wiþ þe Iustice speke /
                                
                                  On hem þat ben gultyf I wil ben a-wreke
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                                  lat non skape at þe dore take ȝonge men ȝeme /
                                
                                  For I wil be Iustice þis day domes to deme
                                
                                  God spede me þis day at my newe werk
                                
                                  Adam com on with me / for þou schalt be my clerk
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                                  His men answereden him and bad him doon his best
                                
                                  And if þou to vs haue neede þou schalt fynde vs prest
                                
                                  we wiln stande with þe whil þat we may dure
                                
                                  And but we werke manly pay vs non hure /
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                                  yonge men seyde Gamelyn so mot I wel þe
                                
                                  As trusty a maister ȝe schal fynde of me /
                                
                                  Right þere þe justice sat in þe halle
                                
                                  In wente Gamelyn amonges hem alle
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                                  ¶ Gamelyn leet/ vnfetere his broþer out of beende
                                
                                  Thanne seyde sir Ote his broþer þat was heende [folio 70a] 
                                
                                  Thou haddest almost Gamelyn dwelled to longe
                                
                                  For þe quest is oute on me þat I schulde honge
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                                  Broþer seyde Gamelyn so god ȝif me good rest
                                
                                  This day þey schuln ben hanged þat ben on þy quest
                                
                                  And þe Iustice boþe þat is Iugges man
                                
                                  And þe scherreue boþe þurgh him it bigan
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                                  Than seyde Gamelyn to þe Iustise
                                
                                  Now is þy power y-don þou most nedes arise
                                
                                  Thow hast ȝeuen domes þat ben yuel dight
                                
                                  I wil sitten in þy sete an dressen hem aright

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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 152
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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