The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Allas seide þis ffrankleyn þat euer was I bore
                                
                                  ffor tweye stalworþe sones I wene þat I haue lore
                                
                                  A champion is in þe place þat haþ y-wrought me sorwe
                                
                                  ffor he haþ slayn my tuo sones but if god hem borwe
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                                  I wolde ȝiue ten pound by ihesu crist and more
                                
                                  Wiþ þe nones I fand a man to handelen him sore
                                
                                  Goode man seide Gamelyn wilt þou wel done
                                
                                  hold myn hors whil my man draweþ of my schone
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                                  And help my man to kepe my cloþes and my steede
                                
                                  And I wil in to þe place gon to loke if I may speede
                                
                                  By god seide þe ffrankeleyn it schal be doon
                                
                                  I wol my self be þy man to drawen of þi schoon
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                                  And wende þou in to þe place ihesu crist þe speede
                                
                                  And drede not of þi cloþes nor of þi goode steede
                                
                                  Barfot and vngert Gamelyn in came
                                
                                  Alle þat were in þe place heede of him þei name
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                                  how he dorste auntre him of him to don his might
                                
                                  That was so doughty a champioun in wrastelyng and in fight
                                
                                  vp sterte þe Champioun rapely anon
                                
                                  Toward ȝonge Gamelyn he bigan to goon
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                                  And seide who is þi fader and who is þi sire/ [folio 64bb] 
                                
                                  ffor soþe þou art a gret fool þat þou come hire/
                                
                                  Gamelyn answerde þe Champioun þo/
                                
                                  Thou knewe wel my fader whil he couþe goo
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                                  Whiles he was on lyue by seint Martyn
                                
                                  Sire Iohn of Boundes was his name and I Gamelyn
                                
                                  ffelawe seide þe Champioun so mote I þriue
                                
                                  I knew wel þi fader whil he was on lyue
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                                  And þi self Gamelyn I wol þat þou it heere
                                
                                  Whil þou were a ȝong boy a moche schrewe þou were/
                                
                                  Than seide Gamelyn and swor by cristes oore
                                
                                  Now I am oldere woxe þou schalt fynde me a more
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                                  By god sayde þe champiōn welcome mote þou be/
                                
                                  Come þou ones in myn hond schalt þou neuer þe
                                
                                  It was wel wiþinne þe night and þe moone schon
                                
                                  Whan Gamelyn and þe Champiōn togidere gonne gon

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 135
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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