The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Tho made þey Gamelyn to sitte might he nat stonde [folio 64a] 
                                
                                  Til þey had him bounde boþe foot and honde /
                                
                                  The fals knight his broþer of Gamelyn was agast
                                
                                  And sent aftir feteres to feteren him fast
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                                  His broþer made lesynges on him þer he stood
                                
                                  And told hem þat comen In þat Gamelyn was wood
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood to a post bounden in þe halle /
                                
                                  Tho þat comen in þer loked on him alle /
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                                  Euer stood Gamelyn euen vpright
                                
                                  But mete ne drynk had he non neiþer day ne night
                                
                                  Than seyde Gamelyn broþer by myn hals
                                
                                  Now I haue aspied þou art a party fals /
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                                  had I wist þat tresoun þat þou haddest y-founde
                                
                                  I wolde haue ȝeue þe strokes or I had be bounde /
                                
                                  Gamelyn stood bounden stille as eny stoon·
                                
                                  Two dayes and two nightes mete had he noon
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                                  Thanne seyde Gamelyn þat stood y-bounde stronge /
                                
                                  Adam Spencer me þinkþ I faste to longe
                                
                                  Adam Spencer now I byseche þe
                                
                                  For þe mochel loue my fader loued þe/
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                                  yf þou may come to þe keyes lese me out of bond
                                
                                  And I wil parte wiþ þe of my free lond
                                
                                  Thanne seyde adam þat was þe Spencer
                                
                                  I haue serued þy broþer þis xvj. ȝeer
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                                  If I leete þe goon out of his bour
                                
                                  he wolde say afterward I were a traytour
                                
                                  Adam sayde Gamelyn so brouk I myn hals
                                
                                  þou schalt fynde my broþer atte laste fals
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                                  Therfor broþer adam louse me out of bond
                                
                                  And I wil parte wiþ þe of my free lond
                                
                                  vp swich a forward seyde adam I-wys
                                
                                  I wil do þerto al þat in me is
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn al so mot I þe
                                
                                  I wol hold þe couenaunt and þou wil me
                                
                                  Anon as adames lord to bedde was I-goon
                                
                                  Adam took þe keyes and leet gamelyn out anoon

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 140
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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