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

                                
                                  Tho seide þe Champion so brok I my swere
                                
                                  He is a fool þat þer-of bief þou sillest it so dere
                                
                                  Thoo seide the frankeleyn þat was in moche care
                                
                                  ffelaw he seide why lakkist þou þis ware
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                                  By seynt Iame in Gales þat mony man hath sought [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 55b] 
                                
                                  Ȝit is it to good chepe þat þou hast bought
                                
                                  Tho þat wardeyns were of þat wrastlyng
                                
                                  Come and brouȝt Gamelyn þe Ram and þe ryng
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  And Gamelyn thouȝt it was a faire þyng
                                
                                  And went with moche Ioy home in þe mornyng
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  His broþer seie where he came with þe grete route
                                
                                  And bade shit þe gate and hold hym with-oute
                                
                                  The porter of his lord was sore a-gaste
                                
                                  And stert a-none to the gate and lokked it faste
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  Now lytþeþ and lysteneyth boþe yong and old
                                
                                  And ȝe shul he Gamyn of Gamelyn þe bold
                                
                                  Gamelyn come þerto for to haue comyn In
                                
                                  Than was it schet fast with a pyn
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                                  Than seide Gamelyn porter vndo þe ȝate
                                
                                  ffor gode mannys sone stond þer ate
                                
                                  Than answered þe porter and sware by goddes berd
                                
                                  Thou ne shalt Gamelyn come in to this ȝerd
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  Thou lixt seide Gamelyn so broke I my chyne
                                
                                  He smote the wiket with his foote and brake a-way þe pyne
                                
                                  The porter sey tho it myght no better be
                                
                                  He sette fote on erthe and by-gan to flee
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  By my fey seide Gamelyn þat trauel is lore
                                
                                  ffor I am on fote as light as þou haddest it swore
                                
                                  Gamelyn ouer toke þe porter and his tene wrake
                                
                                  And girt him in the nekke þat þe boon to-brake
                                  Line 304 
                                
                                  And toke him in his arme and threw hym in a welle
                                
                                  Vijc. fadame it was depe I haue herd telle
                                
                                  Whan Gamelyn þe ȝong þus had plaide his plaie
                                
                                  Alle þat in the ȝerde were drowen hem a-waye

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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 9
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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