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

                                
                                  yonge men sayde Gamelyn þis þey heeren alle
                                
                                  Sire Ote stant fetered in þe moot halle
                                
                                  If god yif vs grace wel for to do
                                
                                  he schal it abegge þat it broughte þerto
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                                  Thanne seyde Gamelyn þat lokkes hadde hore
                                
                                  Cristes curs most he haue þat him [[four strokes to the m.]]  bond so sore
                                
                                  And þou wolt Gamelyn don after my reed
                                
                                  Ther is non in þe halle schal bere awey his heed
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn we wille nought doon so
                                
                                  We wol sle þe gultyf and late þe oþer go
                                
                                  I wil in to þe halle and wiþ þe Iustice speke
                                
                                  On hem þat ben gultyf I wol ben a-wreke
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                                  late non scape at þe dore yonge men take yeme
                                
                                  ffor I wol be Iustice þis day doomes to deeme
                                
                                  God speede me þis day at my newe werk
                                
                                  Adam com with me for þou schalt be my clerk
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                                  his men answerde him and bad him don his best
                                
                                  And if þou to vs haue neede þou schalt fynde vs preste
                                
                                  We wiln stande with þe whil þat we may dure
                                
                                  And but we werken manly pay vs non hure
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                                  Yonge men sayde Gamelyn so mot I wel þee/
                                
                                  As trusty a maister ye schal fynde of me [folio 73a] 
                                
                                  Right þer þe Iustice sat in þe halle
                                
                                  In wente Gamelyn amonges hem alle
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                                  Gamelyn leet vnfettere his broþer out of bende
                                
                                  Thanne seide sire Otes his broþer þat was heende
                                
                                  Thou haddest almost Gamelyn dwelled to longe
                                
                                  ffor þe queste is out on me þat I scholde honge
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                                  Broþer seide Gamelyn so god yif me good rest
                                
                                  This day þey schul ben hanged þat ben vpon þe quest
                                
                                  And þe Iustice boþe þat is þe Iugge man
                                
                                  And þe schirriue boþe þorugh him it bigan
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                                  Thanne seyde Gamelyn to þe Iustise
                                
                                  Now is þy power don þou most nedes arise
                                
                                  Thou hast yiuen doomes þat ben yuel dight
                                
                                  I wil sitten in þi sete and dressen hem aright

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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 152
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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