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

                                
                                  The porter hadde be-hold hem a litil while
                                
                                  He loued wel Gamelyn and was drad of gile
                                
                                  And let þe wyket stond ful stille
                                
                                  And asked hem with oute what was here wille
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                                  ffor alle þe grete companye þan spake but one
                                
                                  Vndo þe gate porter and lete vs in gone
                                
                                  Than saide þe porter so brouke I my chyn
                                
                                  Ȝe shul saye ȝoure erant er ȝe come Ine
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                                  Say to Gamelyn and Adam ȝif þeire wil be
                                
                                  We wil speke with hem two wordes or thre
                                
                                  ffelaw saide þe porter stande þer stille
                                
                                  And I wend to Gamelyn to wyte his wille
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                                  In went þe porter to gamelyn a-none
                                
                                  And saide sire I warne ȝow here be comen ȝoure foon
                                
                                  The shirreues men ben atte þe gate
                                
                                  ffor to take ȝow both shul ȝe not scape
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                                  Porter seid Gamelyn so mote I wel the
                                
                                  I wil allowe þe þi wordes when I my tyme see
                                
                                  Go a-geyn to þe gate and dwelle with hem a while
                                
                                  And þou shalt se right sone porter a gile
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn loke þe to gone
                                
                                  We haue foo men atte gate and frendes neuer one [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 64a] 
                                
                                  Hit ben þe Shirreues men þat hider ben comen
                                
                                  Thei be swore to-geder þat we shal be nome
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                                  Gamelyn said Adam hye the right blyue
                                
                                  And if I faile the þis day euel mote I thryue
                                
                                  And we shul so wel-come þe Shirreues men
                                
                                  That some of hem shal make her beddes in þe fen
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                                  At a posterne gate Gamelyn out went
                                
                                  And a good Cartstaf in his hond hent
                                
                                  Adam hente sone an other grete staf
                                
                                  ffor to helpen Gamelyn and good strokes ȝaf
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                                  Adam fel tweyne and Gamelyn fel thre
                                
                                  The other sette feete on erth and by-gan to flee
                                
                                  What saide Adam so euer here I masse
                                
                                  I haue right good wyn drynke or ȝe passe

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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 17
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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