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

                                
                                  Nay by god seide þei þi drinke is not goode
                                
                                  It wold make mannes brayn to lien in his hoode
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood stille and lokid him a-boute
                                
                                  And saide þe shirreue cometh with a grete route
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn what ben now þi redes
                                
                                  Here cometh þe sherreue and wil haue oure hedes
                                
                                  Adam seide to Gamelyn myn rede is now þis
                                
                                  A-bide we no lenger lest we fare amys
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                                  I rede þat we to wood gone or þat we be fonde
                                
                                  Better is þer louse þan in towne be bounde
                                
                                  Adam toke bi the hond ȝong gamelyn
                                
                                  And euery of hem drank a draght of wyn
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                                  And after token her cours and wenten her way
                                
                                  Tho fond þe sherreue nyst but none eye
                                
                                  The sherreue light doune and wente in to halle
                                
                                  And fond þe lord fetred fast with alle
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                                  The shirreue vnfetered him right sone anone
                                
                                  And sent after a leche to hele his rigge bone
                                
                                  Late we now þe fals knyght lie in his care
                                
                                  And take we of Gamelyn and loke how he fare
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                                  Gamelyn in to þe wood stalkid stille
                                
                                  And Adam spencer liked right ille
                                
                                  Adam swore to Gamelyn by seint Richere
                                
                                  Now I see it is mery to be a spencer
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                                  That leuer me were keys to bere
                                
                                  Than walken in þis wild woode my clothes to tere
                                
                                  Adam seide Gamelyn dismay þe right noght [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 64b] 
                                
                                  Mony good mannys child in care is broght
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                                  As thei stod talkyng bothen in ffere
                                
                                  Adam herd talking of men and nyghe him þought þei were
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyn vnder wood lokid a-right
                                
                                  Seuen score of ȝong men he se wel I-dight
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                                  Alle sate at þe mete compas aboute
                                
                                  Adam seide Gamelyn now haue I no doute
                                
                                  After bale cometh bote þorgh goddes might
                                
                                  Me thinke of mete and drinke y haue a sight

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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 18
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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