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

                                
                                  His men told him of auentures þat þei had fonde
                                
                                  And Gamelyn hem told hem a-ȝen how he was fast bonde
                                
                                  While Gamelyn was outlaw hade he no cors
                                
                                  Þer was no man þat for him ferd þe wors
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                                  But Abbotes and Priours monk and Chanon
                                
                                  On hem left he noght when he might hem nome
                                
                                  While Gamelyn and his men made myrthes Ryve
                                
                                  The fals knyght his brother euel mote he priue
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                                  ffor he was fast aboute bothe day and other
                                
                                  ffor to hire þe queste to hangen his brother
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood on a day and be-beld
                                
                                  The wodes and þe shawes and þe wild feld [Royal MS 18 C ii folio 66b] 
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                                  He þoght on his brother how he him by-hette
                                
                                  That he wolde be redy whan þe Iustice sette
                                
                                  He þoght welle he wold with-oute delay
                                
                                  Come a-fore þe Iustice to kepen his day
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                                  And seide to his ȝong men dighteþ ȝow ȝare
                                
                                  ffor whan þe Iustice sitte we most be þere
                                
                                  ffor I am vnder borow til þat I come
                                
                                  And my brother for me to pryson shal be nome
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                                  Be seint Iame said his ȝong men and þou rede þerto
                                
                                  Ordeigne how it shal be and it shal be do
                                
                                  While Gamelyn was comyng þer þe Iustice satte
                                
                                  The fals knyght his broþer for-ȝate he not þate
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                                  To hire þe men on his quest to hangen his brother
                                
                                  Thoghe þei hadde not þe oon þei wolde haue þe tother
                                
                                  Tho come Gamelyn fro vnder þe wode Rys
                                
                                  And broght with him ȝong men of prys
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                                  I see wel seide Gamelyn þe Iustice is sette
                                
                                  Goo a-forn Adam and loke how it spette
                                
                                  Adam went in to þe halle and loked all a-boute
                                
                                  He say þer stonde lordes grete and stoute
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                                  And sir Ote his brother fetered ful faste
                                
                                  Tho wente Adam oute of halle as he were a-gast
                                
                                  Adam seide to Gamelyn and to his felawes alle
                                
                                  Sire Ote stant fetered in þe mote halle

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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 23
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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