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

                                
                                  Thus Gamelyn and Adam wroght right fast
                                
                                  And plaide with the monkes and made hem agast
                                
                                  Thider þei come riding Ioly with swaynes
                                
                                  And home a-ȝeyn þei were lad in cartes and waynes
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                                  Tho þei hadden alle I-doo þen seide a gray frere
                                
                                  Alas sire Abbot what did we now here
                                
                                  Tho þat we comen hider it was a cold reede
                                
                                  Vs hadde ben better at home with water and with brede
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                                  While Gamelyn made ordres of monkes and frere
                                
                                  Euer stode his brother and made foul chere
                                
                                  Gamelyn vp with his staff þat he wel knew
                                
                                  And girt him in þe nek þat he ouer threw
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                                  A litil a-boue þe gyrdel þe rigge bon to-brast
                                
                                  And sette him in þe fetres þer he sat arst
                                
                                  Sitte þer brother seide Gamelyn
                                
                                  ffor to colen þi body as I did myn.
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                                  As sucche as þei hadden wroken hem on her foon [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 63b] 
                                
                                  Thei askid water and wasshen a-none
                                
                                  What some for here loue and somme for her awe
                                
                                  Alle þe seruauntes seruet hem of the beste lawe
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                                  The sherreue was þenne but fyue myle
                                
                                  And alle was told him in a litil while
                                
                                  How gamelyn and Adam haden don a sory res
                                
                                  Bounden and wounden men a-ȝens the kynges pees
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                                  Tho by-gan sone strif for to wake
                                
                                  And the sherrif aboute Gamelyn forto take
                                
                                  Now litheþ and listeneþ so god ȝeue ȝow good fyne
                                
                                  And ȝe shul here gode game of ȝong Gamelyn
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                                  ffoure and twenti ȝong men þat helden hem ful bold
                                
                                  Come to þe shirreue and seide þat þei wolde
                                
                                  Gamelyn and Adam fette by here fay
                                
                                  The shirreue ȝeue hem leue soth for to say
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                                  Thei hyeden fast wold þei not lynne
                                
                                  Til þei come to þe gate þer Gamelyn was Inne
                                
                                  Thei knokkeden on þe gate þe porter was nyghe
                                
                                  And loked out at an hole as man that was slighe

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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 16
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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