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

                                
                                  Than seyde þe mayster king of outlawes
                                
                                  What seeke ȝe yonge men vnder þe woode schawes/
                                
                                  Gamelyn answerde þe king wiþ his croune
                                
                                  he moste needes walke in woode þat may not walke in towne
                                
                                  Sire we walke not heere non harm to do
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                                  But if we meete a deer to schete þer to
                                
                                  As men þat ben hungry and mowe no mete fynde
                                
                                  And ben harde bestad vnder woode lynde
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                                  Of Gamelynes wordes þe mayster hadde rewþe
                                
                                  And seyde ye schal haue ynough haue god my treuþe
                                
                                  he bad hem sitte doun for to take reste
                                
                                  And bad hem ete and drynke and þat of þe beste
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                                  As þei eeten and dronke wel and fyn
                                
                                  Than saide þat oon to þat oþer þis is Gamelyn
                                
                                  Tho was þe maister out-lawe in to counseil nome
                                
                                  And tolde how it / was Gamelyn þat þider was y-come
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                                  Anon as he herde how it was byfalle
                                
                                  he made him maister vnder him ouer hem alle
                                
                                  Wiþinne þe þridde weke him come tydynges
                                
                                  To þe mayster outlawe þat was here kynges
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                                  þat he schulde come home his pees was maad
                                
                                  And of þat goode tydyng he was ful glaad [folio 71a] 
                                
                                  Tho sayde he to his ȝonge men soþ for to telle
                                
                                  Me ben comen tydynges I may no lenger dwelle
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                                  Tho was Gamelyn anon wiþoute taryyng
                                
                                  Maad mayster outlawe and crouned here king
                                
                                  Tho was Gamelyn crouned king of out-lawes
                                
                                  And walked a while vnder woode schawes
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                                  The false knight his broþer was scherreue and sire
                                
                                  And leet his broþer endite for hate and for Ire
                                
                                  Tho were his bonde men sory and noþing gladde
                                
                                  Whan Gamelyn here lord wolfes heed was cried and maad
                                
                                  And sente out of his men wher þey might him fynde
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                                  ffor to seeke Gamelyn vnder þe woode lynde
                                
                                  To tellen him tydynges the wynd was went
                                
                                  And all his good reued and his men schent

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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 148
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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