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

                                
                                  They dredein hym fol sore for werke þat he wrought
                                
                                  And for þe faire companye þat he þedir brought
                                
                                  Gamelyn ȝede to þe ȝate and lete hit vp wide
                                
                                  He lete in alle þat gone old or ride
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                                  And seide ȝe be welcome with-oute eny greue
                                
                                  ffor we wille be maisters here and axe no man leue
                                
                                  Ȝersterday I left . seyde ȝong Gamelyn [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 56a] 
                                
                                  In my broþer seller fyue tonne wyne
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                                  I wilnot þis companye parten on twyne
                                
                                  And ȝe wille don after me while sope ys þer-inne
                                
                                  And ȝif my brother gruche or make foule chere
                                
                                  Other for spence of mete or drynke þat we spende here
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                                  I am oure Catour and bere oure alþer purse
                                
                                  He shal haue for his gruchyng seynt marie curse
                                
                                  My brother ys a nygon y swere by cristes ore
                                
                                  And we wille spende largely þat he hath spared ȝore
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                                  And who þat make gruchyng þat we here dwelle
                                
                                  He shal to porter in to þe drawe welle
                                
                                  Vij. dayes and vij. nyght : Gamelyn held his fest
                                
                                  With moche solace was there and none chest
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                                  In a litel torret his broþer ley steke
                                
                                  And sey hem wast his good and dorst not speke
                                
                                  Erly in a mornyng on the viij. day
                                
                                  The gestes come to Gamelyn and wold gone her way
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                                  Lordes seide Gamelyn wil ȝe so hye
                                
                                  Alle þe wyne is not ȝet dronke so broke I myn eye
                                
                                  Gamelyn in his hert was ful wo
                                
                                  Whenne his gestes toke her leue fro hym for to go
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                                  He wold þey hadde dwelled lenger and þey seide nay
                                
                                  But by-tauȝt Gamelyn god and goode day
                                
                                  Thus made Gamelyn his fest and brouȝt it wel to ende
                                
                                  And after his gestes to leue to wende
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                                  Lytheþ and lystenyth and holdeth ȝoure tonge
                                
                                  And ȝe shul here Gamen of Gamelyn þe ȝong
                                
                                  Herkenyth lordynges and lystenyth a right
                                
                                  Whenne alle gestes were gon how Gamelyn was dight

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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 10
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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