The Tale of Gamelyn
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I schal anon be take and in þy stede I bounde /
Broþer sayde Gamelyn dismaye þe nought
For by seint Iame in gales þat many man haþ sougħt
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If þat god almighty hold my lyf and witt
I wil be þer redy whan þe Iustice sitt
Than seide sir Ote to Gamelyn god schilde þe fro schame
Com whan þou seest tyme / and bring vs out of blame /
LItheþ and lestneþ and holdeþ ȝou stille /
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And ȝe schul here how Gamelyn had al his wille /
Gamelyn wente aȝein vnder woode Rys
And fond þere pleying ȝonge men of prys
Tho was ȝonge Gamelyn glad & bliþe ynougħ
Whan he fond his mery men vnder woode bougħ
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Gamelyn and his men talked in feere /
And þey hadde good game here maister to heere
They tolden him of auentures þat þey hadde foūde /
And Gamelyn hem tolde aȝein how he was fast I bounde
Whil Gamelyn was outlawed had he no cors
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There was no man þat for him ferde þe wors
But abbotes and priours monk and Chanou~
On hem left he no þing whan he might hem nom
Whil Gamelyn and his men made merþes ryue
The fals knigħt his broþer yuel mot he þryue /
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For he was fast aboute boþe day and oþer
For to hyre þe quest to hangen his broþer
Gamelyn stood on a day and as he biheeld
The woodes and þe schawes in þe wilde feeld
He þought on his broþer how he him biheet
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That he wolde be redy whan þe Iustice seet
He þoughte wel þat he wolde wiþoute delay
Come afore þe Iustice to kepen his day
And seide to his ȝonge men dighteþ ȝou ȝare /
For whan þe Iustice sitt we moote be þare /
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For I am vnder borwe til þat I come /
And my broþer for me to prisoū schal be nome /
By seint Iame seyde his ȝonge men and þou rede þerto
Ordeyne how it schal be and it schal be do /
Whil Gamelyn was comyng þer þe Iustice sat /