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

                                
                                  Adam loke tho vnder wode bough
                                
                                  And tho he say mete and he was glad I-nough
                                
                                  ffor he hoped to god to haue his dele
                                
                                  And he was sore alonged after a gode mele
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                                  As he saide þat word þe maister outlawe
                                
                                  Sawgh Adam and Gamelyn vnder wode shawe
                                
                                  Ȝonge men saide þe maister bi þe gode rode
                                
                                  I am war of gestes god send vs gode
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                                  Yonde ben two yonge men wel I-dight
                                
                                  And parauenture ther ben more who so loked aright
                                
                                  Ariseth vp yong men and fette hem to me
                                
                                  It is good þat we witten what men thei be
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                                  Vp þer sterten seuene fro þe dyner
                                
                                  And metten wiþ gamelyn and Adam spencer
                                
                                  Whan thei were nighe hem þan seide þat one
                                
                                  Yeldeth vp ȝonge men ȝoure bowes and ȝoure flone
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                                  Than saide Gamelyn that ȝonge was of elde
                                
                                  Moche sorowe mote þei haue at to ȝow hem ȝelde
                                
                                  I course none other but right my selue
                                
                                  Thei ȝe fette to ȝow fyue þan be ȝe twelue
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                                  Þo þei herde by his word that might was in his arme
                                
                                  Ther was none of hem þat wolde don hem harme
                                
                                  But seide to Gamelyn myldely and stille
                                
                                  Come a-fore oure maistre and sai to him þi wille
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                                  Ȝonge men saide Gamelyn bi ȝoure lewte
                                
                                  What man is ȝour maister that ȝe with be
                                
                                  Alle þe answerde with-oute lesinge
                                
                                  Oure maister is crowned of outlawes kynge
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn go we in cristes name
                                
                                  He may neither mete ne drinke werne vs for shame
                                
                                  Ȝif þat he be hende and come of gentil blood
                                
                                  He wil ȝeue vs mete and drinke and do vs some good [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 65a] 
                                
                                  Be seint Iame saide Adam what harme þat I gete
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                                  I wil auenture me þat I hadde mete
                                
                                  Gamelyn and Adam went forth in fere
                                
                                  And þei grette þe maister that þei fonde þere

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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 19
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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