Chapter Galatea to Gamelyn of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook

when Adam the spenser (i.e. the man who had charge of the buttery) secretly unbound him and gave him food; and Gamelyn fell upon a party of ecclesiastics, who had come to dine with his brother, and “sprinkled holy water on them with a stout oaken cudgel.” The sheriff sent to apprehend the young spitfire, but he fled with Adam into the woods, and came upon a party of foresters sitting at meat. The captain gave him welcome, and Gamelyn in time became “king of the outlaws.” Johan, being sheriff, had him arrested and sent to prison, but Ote, the other brother, bailed him out, and at the assize, Johan was executed, Ote was made sheriff in his brother’s place, and Gamelyn became the king’s chief ranger, and married “a wif both good and feyr.”—Chaucer: Coke’s Tale of Gamelyn.

Lodge has made this tale the basis of his romance entitled Rosalynd or Euphues Golden Legacie (1590); and from Lodge’s novel Shakespeare has borrowed the plot, with some of the characters and dialogue, of As You Like It.