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THE PROCTOURES TALE OF GAMBLYN.

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Be first upon the home-cominge spurte.

A gret eleccioun was in that lande

To chese a reuler oer that folk to stande,

And som thought Samuel the place wold gette,

Som Rutherford, and gan upon it bette,

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And many put their groates in a pool.

Now Wille sayd: "By Johan I am no fool,

For on the pool at Biddeford in Maine

And other places eek in sun and raine

I won the race by pulling in my boate.

Why not upon this pool win many a groate?

Som clerkes say ye shall not deal with chaunce,

But yet I trow it is an olde daunce,

For ye ban read of Samsoun in the Bible,

How he betted ne were it not culpible;

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