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

                                
                                  The Iustice sat stille and roos nought anoon
                                
                                  And Gamelyn cleuede his cheeke boon
                                
                                  Gamelyn took him in his arm and no more spak
                                
                                  But þrew him ouer þe barre and his arm tobrak
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                                  Durste non to Gamelyn seye but good
                                
                                  For fered of þe company þat wiþoute stood
                                
                                  Gamelyn sette him doun in þe Iustices sete /
                                
                                  And sire Ote his broþer by him / and adam at his feet
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                                  whan Gamelyn was I-set in þe Iustices sete
                                
                                  herkneþ of a bourde þat Gamelyn dede /
                                
                                  he leet fetre þe Iustice and his fals broþer
                                
                                  And dede hem come to þe barre þat oon wiþ þat oþer
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                                  Tho Gamelyn hadde þus y-doon had he no rest
                                
                                  Til he had enquered who was on þe quest
                                
                                  For to deme his broþer sir Ote for to honge /
                                
                                  Er he wiste which þey were he þoughte ful longe
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                                  But as sone as Gamelyn wiste wher þey were
                                
                                  he dede hem euerichone fetere in feere /
                                
                                  And bringen hem to þe barre and sette hem in rewe /
                                
                                  By my faiþ seyde þe Iustice þe Scherreue is a schrewe
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                                  Than seyde Gamelyn to þe Iustise
                                
                                  Thou hast y-ȝeue domes of þe wors assise
                                
                                  And þe .xij. sisours þat weren of þe queste /
                                
                                  They schul ben hanged þis day so haue I reste
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                                  Thanne seide þe scherreue to ȝonge Gamelyn ·
                                
                                  Lord I crie þe mercy broþer art þou myn
                                
                                  Therfore seyde Gamely haue þou cristes curs
                                
                                  For and þou were maister ȝit I schulde haue wors [folio 70b] 
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                                  For to make schort tale and nouȝt to tarie longe
                                
                                  he ordeyned him a queste of his men so stronge
                                
                                  The Iustice and þe scherreue boþe honged hye
                                
                                  To weyuen wiþ ropes and wiþ þe wynd drye
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                                  And þe .xij. sisours sorwe haue þat rekke
                                
                                  Alle þey were hanged faste by þe nekke /
                                
                                  Thus ended þe fals knight wiþ his treccherie
                                
                                  That euer had I-lad his lyf in falsnes and folye

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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 153
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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