Among the particular resemblances, we may notice the method of commencing each division of the Poem with an invocation[2].
By far the best way is to tabulate the results once for all, as I have there done.
And al the cost I wol my-selven make; And chees what folk that thou wilt with thee take; Lat see now, darstow taken this viage?
The former is only six degrees broad, and shews only the northern half of the heavenly zodiac, the breadth of which is imagined to be 12 degrees.
In some winters night, whan the firmament is clere and thikke-sterred, waite a tyme til that any sterre fix sit lyne-right perpendiculer over the pol artik, and clepe that sterre A.
And wayte a-nother sterre that sit lyne-right under A, and under the pol, and clepe that sterre F.
Ye clepe him lord of all beasts living; And nothing worthy, as far as I can see.
But if that I should clepe to memory Each strange effect, and every great marvel That I have caused, I ensure you faithfully That rather time than process should me fail.
Dryf out that bittre hope, and make good chere, And clepe ayein the beautee of your face, That ye with salte teres so deface.
And as for me, for al swich variaunce, Felicitee clepe I my suffisaunce.
For shal I 110 clepe it thanne a felonie or a sinne that I have desired the savacioun of the ordre of the senat?
And the shyninge of gemmes, that I clepe precious stones, draweth it nat the eyen of folk to hem-ward, that is to seyn, for the beautee?
The first statute was, that thei scholde beleeven and obeyen in God inmortalle, that is allemyghty, that wolde casten hem out of servage; and at alle tymes clepe to him for help, in tyme of nede.
For men werein wont for to clepe that place, the feld of Damasce; because that it was in the lordschipe of Damask.
And I alsso my self sa bald wolx thair That I durst schaw my voce in the dyrk nycht, And clepe and cry fast throw the stretis on hycht Ful dolorusly, Crevsa!
Sathan theclepe I, Pluto infernall, Prynce in that dolorus den of wo and pane, Nocht God tharof, bot gretast wrech of all.
Sir, for fear of you his face he shall hide: I shall clepe you Shame.
These garments gay I give to thee, And also I give to thee a name, And clepe thee Wanton in every game, Till fourteen year be come and gone, And then come again to me.
Sir, here in this clout I knit Shame, And clepe me but proper Folly.
No, sir, I will not you from covetise bring, For covetise I clepe a king.
I clepe hym god þat is a worde þat is vsed to alle folke.
I clepe fortunous possessiou{n}s [Sidenote: Can you ever command a freeborn soul?
After deeþ clepe nomore y nylle, But slee my self~ now y wille.
And they ben versifyed comunly (90) Of six feet, which men clepe exametron.
My sone, if thou no wikked word hast seyd, Thee thar nat drede for to be biwreyd; But he that hath misseyd, I dar wel sayn, He may by no wey clepe his word agayn.
Paraventure in thilke large book 190 Which that men clepe the heven, y-writen was With sterres, whan that he his birthe took, That he for love shulde han his deeth, allas!
Freeltee clepe I, but-if that he and she Wolde leden al hir lyf in chastitee.
I seye that first ye shulclepe to your conseil your freendes that been trewe.
Now lat us speke thanne of thilke stinkinge sinne of Lecherie that men clepe Avoutrie of wedded folk, that is to seyn, if that oon of hem be wedded, or elles bothe.
And they drink gladliest man's blood, the which they clepe Dieu.
And men clepe that isle the Isle of Bragman, and some men clepeit the Land of Faith.
And in that isle dwelleth the pope of their law, that theyclepe Lobassy.
And this star that is toward the north, that we clepe the Lode-star, ne appeareth not to them.
But fast beside that isle, for to pass by sea, is a great isle and a great country that men clepe Java.
Between those mountains the Jews of ten lineages be enclosed, that men clepe Goth and Magoth and they may not go out on no side.
And there was wont to grow the balm; but men make draw the branches thereof and bear them to be grafted at Babylon; and yet men clepe them vines of Geddi.
In that land groweth the pepper in the forest that men clepe Combar.
And men clepe it Mount Joy, for it giveth joy to pilgrims' hearts, because that there men see first Jerusalem.
Beside the isle of Pentexoire, that is the land of Prester John, is a eat isle, long and broad, that men clepe Mistorak; and it is in the lordship of Prester John.
There dwell Saracens and another manner of folk, that men clepe Cordynes.
There be other, that men clepe Georgians, that Saint George converted; and him they worship more than any other saint, and to him they cry for help.
Is there any-thing that meveth more kyndly than doth the hevens eye, whiche I clepe the sonne?
Although a sypher in augrim have no might in significacion of it-selve, yet he yeveth power in significacion to other; and these clepe I the helpes to a poste to kepe him from falling.
Wherfore, thilke thinges that we clepe power is but 145 accident to the flesshly body; and so they may not have that suretee in might, whiche wanteth in the substancial body.
If thee liste clepe ayen thyn olde remembraunce, thou coudest every point of this declare in especial; and say that I, thy maistresse, have be cause, causing these thinges and many mo other.
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