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

                                
                                  Nay by god sayde þai þi drink is not good
                                
                                  It wolde make a mannes brayn to lyen in his hood
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood stille and loked him aboute
                                
                                  And saide þe scherref comeþ with a gret route
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                                  Adam seide Gamelyn what be now þy redes
                                
                                  here comeþ þe scherreue and wil haue oure heedes
                                
                                  Adam sayde to Gamelyn my reed is now þis
                                
                                  Abyde we no longere if we fare amys
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                                  I rede þat we to woode goon ar þat we be founde
                                
                                  Bettre is it þer louse þan in toune y-bounde
                                
                                  Adam tok by þe hond ȝonge Gamelyn
                                
                                  And euery of hem drank a draught of wyn
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                                  And after token here cours and wenten here way
                                
                                  Tho fond þe scherreue nest and noon ay
                                
                                  The scherref lighte doun and went in to þe halle
                                
                                  And fond þe lord fetered faste wiþ alle
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                                  þe scherreue vnfetered him right soone anon
                                
                                  And sente after a leche to hele his regge bon
                                
                                  lete we now þis false knight lye in his care
                                
                                  And talke we of Gamelyn and loke how he fare
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                                  Gamelyn in to þe woode stalkede stille
                                
                                  And adam þe spenser likede right ylle [folio 70a] 
                                
                                  Adam swore to Gamelyn by seint richeer
                                
                                  Now I see it is mery to ben a spenser
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                                  That leuere me were keyes to bere
                                
                                  Than walken in þis wilde woode my cloþes to tere
                                
                                  Adam sayde Gamelyn dismaye þe right nought
                                
                                  Many good mannes childe in care is brought
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                                  As þei tooke talking boþe in feere
                                
                                  Adam herde talking of men and neigh him þought þei were
                                
                                  Tho Gamelyn vnder woode loked aright
                                
                                  vij. score of ȝonge men he say wel adight
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                                  Alle satte atte mete compas aboute
                                
                                  Adam sayde Gamelyn now haue ȝe no doute
                                
                                  After bale comes boote þorugh goddes might
                                
                                  Me þinkeþ of mete and drynk þat I haue a sight

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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 146
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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