The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  The knyht þouht on treson and Gamelin þouht none [folio 56b] 
                                
                                  And went and kissed his broþer And whan þei weren att one
                                
                                  Alas ȝonge Gamelyne no þinge he ne wiste
                                
                                  With suche false treson his broþer him kyst
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                                  Lysten and lythes and holdeþ ȝoure tonge.
                                
                                  And ȝe schal here talkeinge of Gamelin þe ȝonge
                                
                                  Ther was þere be-side cride a wrastlinge
                                
                                  And þer for þere was sette a rame and a ringe
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                                  And Gamelyn was in wil to wende þer to
                                
                                  ffor to prouen his myht what he couþe do
                                
                                  Broþere seide Gameline be seint Richere
                                
                                  Thou moste lene me to nyht a litel coursere
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                                  þat is frische to þe spores on for to ride
                                
                                  .I. moste on an herande a litel here be-side
                                
                                  Be god seide his br[o]þer of stedes in my stal
                                
                                  Go and chese þe þe best and spare none of al
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                                  Of stedes or of couurseres þat stoden hem be-side
                                
                                  And tel me good broþer wheder þou wilt ride
                                
                                  Here be-side broþer is cried a warstelinge
                                
                                  And þer for schal be sett a ram and a rynge
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                                  Meche worschipe it were broþe to us alle
                                
                                  Might .I. þe ramme and þe ringe bringe home to þis halle
                                
                                  A stede þere was sadeled smerly and skete
                                
                                  Gamelin dide a paire of spores faire on his fete
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                                  He sete fote in þe sterep þe stede he be-strode
                                
                                  And to-warde þe wrastelinge þe ȝin childe rode
                                
                                  Tho Gamelin þe ȝonge was reden oute att þe gate
                                
                                  The false knyht his broþer lokked it after þate
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                                  And be-souht Ihesu crist þat is heuen kinge
                                
                                  He myht breke his neke in þat wrestlinge
                                
                                  As sone as Gamelin cam þer þis place was
                                
                                  He liht doune of his stede and stode on þe gras
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                                  And þere herde a frankelein walawaie singe
                                
                                  And be-gan bitterly his hondes to wringe
                                
                                  Gode man seide Gamelin. whi makes þou þis fare
                                
                                  Is þer no man þat maie ȝow helpen oute of þis care

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 134
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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