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

                                
                                  Whan I wynke on the loke for to goon
                                
                                  And caste a-way thy feders and come to me anoon
                                
                                  Adam seyd Gamelyn blessed be þy bones
                                
                                  That is a gode conseil ȝeuen for þe nones
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                                  Ȝif þey werne me to bryng þe oute of bondes
                                
                                  I wil sette gode strokes right on her lendes
                                
                                  Tho þe sonday was comen and folke to þe feste
                                
                                  ffaire þei were welcomed boþe lest and meste
                                  Line 460 
                                
                                  And euere as þey at þe halle dore come Inne
                                
                                  They cast here eye on ȝong Gamelyn .
                                
                                  The fals knyght his brothir ful of trecherye [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 58a] 
                                
                                  Alle þe gestes þat þer were at þe mangerye
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                                  Of Gamelyn his brothir he told hem with mouthe
                                
                                  Alle þe harme and þe shame þat he telle couthe
                                
                                  Tho þei were I-serued of messes two or thre
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyn how serue ȝe me
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                                  It is noght wel serued by god þat all made
                                
                                  That I sitte fastyng and oþer men make glade
                                
                                  The fals knyght his brother þer as he stoode
                                
                                  Told alle gestes that Gamelyn was woode
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                                  And Gamelyn stoode stille and vnswared noght
                                
                                  But Adams wordes he held in his þought
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyn gan speke deolfully with alle
                                
                                  To þe grete lordes þat saten in þe halle
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                                  Lordes he saide for cristes passion
                                
                                  Helpe to bryng Gamelyn oute of prison
                                
                                  Than saide an Abbot sorow on his cheke
                                
                                  He shal haue cristes curs and seynt maryes eke
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  That þe oute of prison beggeþ or borowe
                                
                                  But euer worth hym wel þat doþe þe moche sorowe
                                
                                  After þat abbot þan spake an oþer
                                
                                  I wold þyn heed were of þeigh þou were my brother
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                                  Alle þat þe borow foul mote hem falle
                                
                                  Thus þei saide alle þat were in the halle
                                
                                  Than saide a priour euel mote he preue
                                
                                  It is grete sorow and care boy þou art on lyue

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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 14
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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