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

                                
                                  Tho maden þei gamelyn to sitte might he not stonde
                                
                                  Til þei hadden him bounde/ boþe foot and honde
                                
                                  The false knight his broþer of Gamelyn was agast
                                
                                  And sente after feteres to feteren him atte last
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                                  his broþer made lesynges on him þer he stood
                                
                                  And tolde hem þat comen In that Gamelyn was wood
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood to a post bounden in þe halle/
                                
                                  Tho that comen in lokeden on him alle
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                                  Euer stood Gamelyn euen vpright
                                
                                  But mete and drink hadde he noon noþer day ne night
                                
                                  Thanne sayde Gamelyn broþer by myn hals
                                
                                  Now I haue aspied þou art a party fals
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                                  hadde I wist þat treson þat þou haddest y-founde
                                
                                  I wolde haue youe strokes or I hadde be bounde
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood bounden stille as eny stoon
                                
                                  Tuo daies and tuo nightes mete hadde he noon
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                                  Thanne sayde Gamelyn þat stood y-bounde stronge
                                
                                  Adam spenser me þink I faste to longe
                                
                                  Adam þe spenser now I beseche þe
                                
                                  ffor þe moche loue my fader loued þe
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                                  If þou may come to þe kayes leese me out of bonde
                                
                                  And I schal parte wiþ þe of my free londe [folio 67a] 
                                
                                  Thanne sayde adam þat was þe spenser
                                
                                  I haue serued þi broþer þis .xvj. ȝer
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                                  If I lete þe gon out of his boure
                                
                                  he wolde say afterward I were a traitour
                                
                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn so brouke I myn hals
                                
                                  þou schalt fynde my broþer atte laste right fals/
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                                  Ther-fore broþer adam loose me out of bondes
                                
                                  And I wil parte with þe of my free londes
                                
                                  vp swich a forward seide adam y-wys/
                                
                                  I wol do þerto al þat in me is
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn also mote I þee
                                
                                  I wil holde þe couenant and þou wil lose me
                                
                                  Anon as adames lord to bedde was y-goon
                                
                                  Adam tok þe kayes and leet Gamelyn out a-non

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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 140
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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