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

                                
                                  He vnlokked Gamelyn boþe handes and feet
                                
                                  In hope of auancement þat he him biheet
                                
                                  Thanne seide Gamelyn þanked be goddes sonde
                                
                                  Now I am loosed boþe foot and honde
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                                  hadde I now eten and drunken aright
                                
                                  Ther is non in þis hous schulde bynde me þis night
                                
                                  Adam took Gamelyn stille as stille as eny stoon
                                
                                  And ladde him in to spense rapely and anoon
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                                  And sette him to soper right in a priue stede
                                
                                  he bad him do gladly and Gamelyn so dede
                                
                                  Anon as Gamelyn hadde eten wel and fyn
                                
                                  And þerto y-dronke wel of þe reede wyn
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn what is now þy rede
                                
                                  ffor I go to my broþer and gyrde of his hede
                                
                                  Gamelyn seyde adam it schal nouȝt be so
                                
                                  I can teche þe a reede þat is worth þe tuo
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                                  I wot wel for soþe þat þis is no nay
                                
                                  We schulle haue a mangery right on sonday
                                
                                  Abbotes and Priours many heer schal be
                                
                                  And oþer men of holy chirche as I telle þe
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                                  þou schalt stonde vp by þe poste as þou were hond fast
                                
                                  And I schal leue þam vnloke þat away þou may hem caste [folio 67b] 
                                
                                  Whan þat þei haue eten and wasshen here hondes
                                
                                  Thou schalt biseke hem alle to bringe þe out of bondes
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                                  And if þei wil borwe þe þat were good game
                                
                                  Thanne were þou out of prison and I out of blame
                                
                                  And if ech of hem sey to vs nay
                                
                                  I schal don anoþer I swere by þis day
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                                  Thou schalt haue a good staff/ and I wol haue anoþer
                                
                                  And cristes curs haue þat oon þat failleþ þat oþer
                                
                                  Ya for gode seyde Gamelyn I say it for me
                                
                                  If I faile on my syde yuele mote I þe
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                                  If we schulle algate assoile hem of here synne
                                
                                  Warne me broþer adam whan we schul begynne
                                
                                  Gamelyn seyde adam by seinte charite/
                                
                                  I wil warne þe biforn whan þat it schal be

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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 141
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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