Crossword-Solution: GAMELYN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The Cook’s Tale is unfinished in all the manuscripts; but in some, of minor authority, the Cook is made to break off his tale, because “it is so foul,” and to tell the story of Gamelyn, on which Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” is founded.

Thus, in the Cokes Tale of Gamelyn, ascribed to Chaucer: 'There happed to be there beside Tryed a wrestling; And therefore there was y-setten A ram and als a ring." Again, the Litil Geste of Robin Hood: 'By a bridge was a wrestling, And there taryed was he And there was all the best yemen Of all the west countrey.

The _Tale of Gamelyn_, dating apparently from the first quarter of the fifteenth century, is probably the last poem of note in which the once universal metre is even partially employed.

But is there not the remains of that glorious chicken-pie—which, meo arbitrio, is better cold than hot—and that bottle of my oldest port, out of which the silly brain-sick Baronet (whom I cannot pardon, since he has escaped breaking his neck) had just taken one glass, when his infirm noddle went a wool-gathering after Gamelyn de Guardover?" So saying he dragged Lovel forward, till the Palmer's-port of Monkbarns received them.

Oldbuck, the descendant of an ancient line—the representative of Richard Redhand and Gamelyn de Guardover, may be pardoned a sigh when he leaves the castle of his fathers thus poorly escorted.