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

                                
                                  Adam lokede þo vnder woode bowȝ
                                
                                  And whan he seyh mete he was glad ynough
                                
                                  For he hopede to god for to haue his deel
                                
                                  And he was sore alonged after a good meel
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                                  As he seyde þat word þe mayster outlawe
                                
                                  Saugh Gamelyn and adam vnder woode schawe /
                                
                                  Ȝonge men seyde þe maister by þe goode roode
                                
                                  I am war of gestes / god send vs non but goode
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                                  Ȝonder ben tuo ȝonge men wonder wel adight
                                
                                  And parauenture þer ben mo / who-so loked aright
                                
                                  Ariseþ vp ȝe ȝonge men and fetteþ hem to me /
                                
                                  It is good þat we witen what men þey bee /
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                                  Vp þer sterten seuene / fro þe dyner
                                
                                  And metten with Gamelyn and adam Spenser
                                
                                  whan þey were neyh hem þan seyde þat oon [folio 67b] 
                                
                                  Ȝeldeth vp ȝonge men ȝour bowes and ȝour floon ·
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                                  Thanne seyde Gamelyn þat yong was of elde
                                
                                  Moche sorwe mot he haue þat to ȝou hem ȝelde /
                                
                                  I curse non oþer but right my selue
                                
                                  Þey ȝe fette to ȝow fyue þanne ȝe be twelue /
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                                  Tho þey herde by his word þat might was in his arm
                                
                                  Ther was non of hem alle / þat wolde do him harm.
                                
                                  But sayd vnto gamelyn myldely and stille
                                
                                  Com afore our maister and sey to him þy wille
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                                  yonge men sayde Gamelyn by ȝour lewte
                                
                                  what man is ȝour maister þat ȝe wiþ be
                                
                                  Alle þey answerde wiþoute lesyng
                                
                                  Oure maister is I-crouned of outlawes kyng
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                                  Adam seyde Gamelyn gowe in cristes name /
                                
                                  he may neyþer mete ne drynk werne vs for schame /
                                
                                  If þat he be heende and come of gentil blood
                                
                                  he wol ȝeue vs mete an drynk and doon vs som good
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                                  By seynt Iame seyd adam / what harm þat I gete /
                                
                                  I wil auntre to þe dore þat I hadde mete
                                
                                  Gamelyn and adam wente forþ in feere
                                
                                  And þey grette þe maister þat þey founde þere

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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 147
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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