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

                                
                                  All þe whil þat Gamelyn held his mangerie
                                
                                  his broþer þought on him be wreke with his treccherie
                                
                                  Tho Gamelynes gestes were riden and y-gon
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood anoon allone frend had he noon
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                                  Tho after ful soone wiþinne a litel stounde
                                
                                  Gamelyn was taken and ful harde bounde
                                
                                  fforþ com þe false knight out of þe sellere
                                
                                  To Gamelyn his broþer he ȝede ful neere
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  And seyde to Gamelyn who made þe so bold
                                
                                  ffor to stroyen my stoore of myn houshold
                                
                                  Broþer sayde Gamelyn wraþþe þe right nouȝt
                                
                                  ffor it is many day go siþþen it was bought
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                                  ffor broþer þou hast had by seint Richer
                                
                                  Of fiftene plowes of lond þis xvj. ȝer
                                
                                  And of alle þe beestes þou hast forþ bred
                                
                                  That my fader me byquath on his deth bed
                                  Line 360 
                                
                                  Of alle þis .xvj. ȝeer I yiue þe þe prow/
                                
                                  ffor þe mete and þe drink þat we haue spended now
                                
                                  Thanne seyde þe false knight yuel mote he þee
                                
                                  herkne broþer Gamelyn what I wol yiue þee/
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                                  ffor of my body broþer geten heer haue I noon
                                
                                  I wil make þe myn heir I swere by sein Iohn [folio 66b] 
                                
                                  Par ma fay seyde Gamelyn and it so bee
                                
                                  And þou þenke as seist god ȝelde it þe
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                                  No þing wiste Gamelyn of his broþeres gile
                                
                                  Ther-fore he him begiled in a litel while/
                                
                                  Gamelyn seyde he o þing I þe telle
                                
                                  Tho þou þrewe my porter in to þe drawe welle
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                                  I swoor in þat wraþþe and in þat grete moot
                                
                                  þat þou scholdest be bounde boþe hand and foot
                                
                                  Therfore I þe beseche broþer Gamelyn
                                
                                  Lat me nought be forsworne broþer artow myn
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                                  Lat me bynde þe boþe hand and foote
                                
                                  ffor to halde myn avow as I þe bihoote
                                
                                  Broþer seyde Gamelyn as so mote I þee
                                
                                  Thou schalt nought be forsworne for þe loue of me

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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 139
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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