The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Allas seide þis frankeleyn that euer was I bore
                                
                                  ffor twei stalworth sones I wene that I haue lore
                                
                                  A Champion is in þe place þat hath wroght me sorowe
                                
                                  ffor he hath slayn my two sones but ȝif god hem borwe
                                
                                  I wol ȝeue ten pound by ihesu crist and more
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                                  With þe nones þat I fond a man to handle hym sore [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 59b] 
                                
                                  Gode man seide Gamelyn wilt þou wel done
                                
                                  Hold myn hors while my man drawith of my shone
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                                  And helpe my man to kepe my clothes and my stede
                                
                                  And I wil in to þe place gone to loke ȝif I may spede
                                
                                  By god seide þe frankeleyn it shal be done
                                
                                  I wil my self be thi man to draw of thi shone
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                                  And wende þou in to place ihesu criste the spede
                                
                                  And drede not of thi clothes ne of þi gode stede
                                
                                  Barfoot and vngirt Gamely In came
                                
                                  Alle þat were in þe place hede of him þei name
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                                  How he durste auntre him to done his myght
                                
                                  Þat was so doughti a champion in wrastling and in fight
                                
                                  Vp sterte þe Champion rapely a-none
                                
                                  Toward ȝong Gamelyn he by-gan to gone
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                                  And seide who is þi fader and who is þi sire
                                
                                  ffor sothe þou art a grete fool þat þou come here
                                
                                  Gamelyn answerid þe Champion tho
                                
                                  Thou knew wel my fader while he couthe go
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                                  Whiles he was on lyue by seint Martyn
                                
                                  Sire Iehan of Boundis was his name and I gamelyn
                                
                                  ffelaw seide þe Champion so mote I thyue
                                
                                  I knew wel þi fader whiles he was on lyue
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                                  And thi self gemelyn I wil þat þou it here
                                
                                  While þou were a ȝong boy a moche schrew þou were
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyn and swore by cristes ore
                                
                                  Now I am older wax þou shalt fynde me a more
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                                  By god seide þe Champion wel come mote þou be
                                
                                  Come þou ones in my hond þou shalt neuer the
                                
                                  It was wel with-Inne the nyght and the mone shone
                                
                                  When Gamelyn and the Champion to-gedre gon gone

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 7
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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