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

                                
                                  The Iustice sat stille and roos nought anoon
                                
                                  And Gamelyn cleuede his cheke boon
                                
                                  Gamelyn tok him in his armes and nomore spak
                                
                                  But þrewe him ouer þe barre and his arme tobrak
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                                  Durste non to Gamelyn seye but good
                                
                                  ffor fered of þe companye þat wiþoute stood
                                
                                  Gamelyn sette him doun in þe Iustices sete
                                
                                  And sire Otes his broþer by him and adam at his feet
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                                  Whan Gamelyn was sette in þe Iustices sete/
                                
                                  herkne of a bourde þat Gamelyn dede
                                
                                  he leet fetere þe Iustice and his false brother
                                
                                  And leet hem come to þe barre þat oon wiþ þat oþer
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                                  Tho Gamelyn hadde þus y-don hadde he no rest
                                
                                  Til he hadde enquered who was on þe quest
                                
                                  ffor to deemen his broþer sire Otes for to honge
                                
                                  Er he wiste which þei were he þoughte ful longe
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                                  But as sone as Gamelyn wiste wher þey were
                                
                                  he dede hem euerichon feteren in fere
                                
                                  And bringen hem to þe barre and sette hem in Rewe
                                
                                  By my faith seide þe Iustice þe Scherreue is a schrewe/
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                                  Thanne sayde Gamelyn to þe Iustice
                                
                                  Thou hast youe doomes of þe wors assise [folio 73b] 
                                
                                  And þe .xij. Sisours that weren of þe queste
                                
                                  They schulle ben hanged þis day so haue I good reste
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                                  Thanne seyde þe Scherreue to yonge Gamelyn
                                
                                  lord I crye þe mercy broþer art þou myn
                                
                                  Ther-fore saide Gamelyn haue þou cristes curs
                                
                                  ffor and þou were maister yet I schulde haue wors
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                                  ffor to make schort tale and nought to long
                                
                                  he ordeigned him a queste of his men so strong
                                
                                  The Iustice and þe Scherreue beþ honged hye
                                
                                  To weiuen with þe Ropes and with þe wynd drye
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                                  And þe .xij Sisours sorwe haue þat rekke
                                
                                  Alle þey were hanged faste by þe nekke
                                
                                  Thus endeth þe false knight with his treccherie
                                
                                  That euer hadde lad his lyf in falsnes and folye

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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 153
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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