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

                                
                                  Ow seid Gamelyn so browke I my bone
                                
                                  Now I haue spied þat frendes haue I none
                                
                                  Cursed mote he worth both flesshe and blood
                                
                                  Þat euer doþ priour or Abbot any good
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                                  Adam þe spencer toke vp þe clothe
                                
                                  And loked on Gamelyn and say þat he was wrothe
                                
                                  Adam on the pantrie litul he þoght
                                
                                  But two gode staues to halle dore he broght
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                                  Adam loked on Gamelyn and he was war anone
                                
                                  And cast away the fetres and bi-gan to gone
                                
                                  Tho he cam to Adam he toke þe on staf
                                
                                  And by-gan to worche and good strokes ȝaf [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 63a] 
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                                  Gamelyn come in to þe halle and the spencer bothe
                                
                                  And lokid hem a-boute as þei hadde ben wrothe
                                
                                  Gamelyn spreynyþ holi water with an Oken spire
                                
                                  That some that stod vp right fel in þe fire
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                                  Þer was no lewed man þat in þe halle stoode
                                
                                  That wold do Gamelyn any thing but goode
                                
                                  But stoden by siden and lete hem bothe wirche
                                
                                  ffor þei hadde ne reweth of men of holy chirche
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                                  Abbot or priour Monk or chanoun
                                
                                  That Gamelyn ouertoke anone þei ȝeden doun
                                
                                  Ther was none of alle þat with his staf mette
                                
                                  Þat he made hem ouer throw and quite hem his dette
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                                  Gamelyn said Adam for seint charite
                                
                                  Pay gode lyueray for þe loue of me
                                
                                  And I wil kepe þe dore so euer here I masse
                                
                                  Er þai ben assoiled þer shal none passe
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                                  Doute the noght seide Gamelyn while we ben in fere
                                
                                  Kepe wel þe dore and I wil wirche here
                                
                                  Bi-stere þe gode Adam and let þer non fle
                                
                                  And we shul telle largeli how mony þat þer be
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                                  Gamelyn saide Adam do hem but goode
                                
                                  Thei ben men of holi chirche draw of hem no blood
                                
                                  Saue wel þe crowne and do hem no harmes
                                
                                  But breke bothe her legges and sithen her armes

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

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