The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  The knyght þought on treson an Gamelyn on none
                                
                                  And went and kissed his brother and whenne þey weren atone
                                
                                  Allas ȝong Gamelyn no þyng he ne wiste
                                
                                  With suche fals treson his brother hym kyste
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                                  Lyithenyth and lystnyth and holdith ȝoure tong [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 54a] 
                                
                                  And ȝe shul here talkyng of Gamelyn þe ȝong
                                
                                  Ther was ther be siden. cried a wrastlyng
                                
                                  And ther for ther was sette a Ram and a ryng
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                                  And Gamelyn was in wille to wende þer to
                                
                                  ffor to preuen his myght what he coude do
                                
                                  Brother seid Gamelyn be seynt Richere
                                
                                  Thou most lene me to nyght a litel coursere
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                                  That is fressh to þe spores on for to ryde
                                
                                  I most on an Erand a litel here by side
                                
                                  Be god seide his broþer of stedes in my stalle
                                
                                  Go and chese the best spare non of hem alle
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                                  Of stedes and of coursers that stoden hem be side
                                
                                  And telle me gode brother whedir þou wilt ride
                                
                                  Here by side brother ys cried a wrastlyng
                                
                                  And þerfore shal be set a Ram an a ryng
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                                  Moche worship it were brother to vs alle
                                
                                  Might ȝe the ram and þe ryng bryngen home to þis halle
                                
                                  A stede þer was sadeled smertly and skete
                                
                                  Gamelyn did a paire of spores fast on his fete
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                                  He sette his foot in þe stirop þe stede he by-strood
                                
                                  And toward þe wrastlyng þe yong child rood
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyn þe yong was riden oute at gate
                                
                                  The fals knyght his brother lokid yit after þate
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                                  And by-souȝt ihesu crist þat is heuen kyng
                                
                                  He myght breke his nekke in þat wrastlyng
                                
                                  As sone as Gamelyn come þere the place was
                                
                                  He light doun of his stede on the gras
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                                  And ther he herde a frankeleyn weylaway synge
                                
                                  And bi-gan bitterly his hondes for to wrynge
                                
                                  Gode man saide Gamelyn whi makest þou þis fare
                                
                                  Is ther no man þat may ȝou helpen oute of care

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 6
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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