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The Tale of Gamelyn Folio 59r 1 of 24 folios

LItheþ and lestneþ and herkneþ aright

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And ȝe schul heere a talkyng of a doughty knigħt

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Sire Iohñ of Boundys was his right name

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He cowde of norture ynougħ & mochil of game

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Thre sones þe knigħt . þat with his body he wan

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The eldest was a moche schrewe / and sone he bygan

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His breþeren loued wel here fader / and of him were agast /

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The eldest deserued his fadres curs / and had it at þe last /

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The goode kniȝt his fader lyuede so ȝore

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That deth was comen him to and handled him ful sore

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The goode knigħt cared sore . sik þer he lay

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How his children scholde lyuen aft er his day

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He hadde ben wyde wher but non housbond he was

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Al þe lond þat he had / it was verrey purchas

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Fayn he wold it were dressed / amonges hem alle

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That ech of hem had his part / as it migħt falle /

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Tho sent he in to cuntre after wise knightes

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To helpe delen his londes / and dressen hem to rightes

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He sent hem word by ƚres / þey schulden hye blyue

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Yf þey wolde speke with him whil he was on lyue

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¶ Tho þe knyghtes herden / sik þer he lay

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Hadde þey no reste noþer nigħt ne day

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Til þey comen to him þer he lay stille /

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On his deþ bedde to abyde goddes wille

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Þan seyde þe goode knigħt syk þer he lay

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Lordes I ȝou warne for soþ wiþoute nay

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I may no lengere lyuen heer in þis stounde

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For þurgh goddes wille deþ draweþ me to grounde

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Ther nas non of hem aƚƚ þat herd him aright

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Þat þey hadden reuþe of þat ilke knigħt

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And seyde sir for goddes loue ne dismay ȝou nought

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God may do bote of bale þat is now I wrought

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¶ÊThan spak þe goode knight sik þer he lay

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Boote of bale god may sende I wot it is no nay

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But I byseke ȝou kniȝtes for þe loue of me

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Goþ and dresseþ my lond among my sones þre

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And sires for þe loue of god deleþ hem nat amys

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And forgetiþ nat Gamelyn my ȝonge sone þat is

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 14 December 2024].

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