Passing al londes, on the litel yle 15 That cleped is Albion they most compleyne; They seyn, that there is croppe and rote of gyle.
And right as everich hath thus singuler instrumentes by hemselfe, they han as wel dyvers aptes and dyvers maner usinges; and 60 thilke aptes mowen in wil ben cleped affeccions.
Your +faders toforn you have cleped such lusty livinges after the flessh "passions of desyre," which are innominable tofore god and man both.
The seconde tyme lasteth from the comming of merciable grace until the ende 10 of transitorie tyme, in whiche is shewed the true way in fordoinge of the badde; and that is y-cleped tyme of Grace.
Of which men schulden gladly herken and enquere with al here herte, to wyte, what is penitence, and whens is cleped penitence?
Sidenote: Manna] That flo{ur} manna was cleped that in the tumba was steked.
And yif thilke delices mowen maken folk blisful, than by the same cause moten thise bestes ben cleped blisful; 10 of whiche bestes al the entencioun hasteth to fulfille hir bodily Iolitee.
This forseide hevenish zodiak is clepedthe cercle of the signes;' Astrolabe, pt.
O moder myn, that clepedwere Argyve, Wo worth that day that thou me bere on lyve!
Now will I give him a name Before you all in same, For he is so fair and free, By God and by Saint Jame, So cleped him ne'er his dame, What woman so it be.
He had, as antique stories tell, A daughter cleped Dowsabell, A maiden fair and free.
And for love of his fair vis His mother cleped him Beaufis, And none other name; And himselve was full nis, He ne axed nought y-wis What he hight at his dame.
For yif so be that perfeccioun is don awey, men may nat thinke nor seye fro whennes thilke thing is that is cleped inperfit.
Whereof a crystal is that one, Which that corone is set upon: The second is an adamant: The third is noble and evenant, Which cleped is Idriades.
Yea, game who so game: Folly hath given me a name, So, wherever I go, He cleped me Shame.
For Folly his own self was here, And hath clepedme Shame.
And above the Vale is the Mount of Olyvete, and it is cleped so; for the plentee of Olyves, that growen there.
For richesse and mendicitees 6525 Ben cleped two extremitees; The mene is cleped suffisaunce, Ther lyth of vertu the aboundaunce.
For-why me thenketh that, in no wyse, It may bencleped but marchandise.
A balade of good counseile translated out of Latin verses in-to Englishe, by Dan Ihon lidgat cleped the monke of Buri.
Yes madame," said Galgano: "God himself could not do me a greater pleasure, than to suffer me to be cleped within your armes.
In 495 "came twain aldermen to Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, with five ships, at that place that is cleped Cerdices ora, and fought that ilk day with the Welsh.
Wherof the comun vois aros In every lond, that such a los He cawhte, al nere it worth a stre, That he was cleped of the See The god be name, and yit he is With hem that so believe amis.
This faire Maiden cleped is Criseide, douhter of Crisis, Which was that time in special Of thilke temple principal, Wher Phebus hadde his sacrifice, So was it wel the more vice.
Lo now, thurgh what creacion He hath deificacion, And cleped is the god of wit To suche as be the foles yit.
After the beinge of the thinges Ther ben thre formes of beinges: Thing which began and ende schal, That thing is cleped temporal; Ther is also be other weie Thing which began and schal noght deie.
The thefte which thei thanne werche Be name is cleped Sacrilegge, Ayein the whom I thenke alegge.
And as thou hast tofore herd telle Hou he was cleped god of helle, 1300 So is sche cleped the goddesse Be cause of him, ne mor ne lesse.
Toward the Slowe progenie Ther is yit on of compaignie, And he is cleped Sompnolence, Which doth to Slouthe his reverence, As he which is his Chamberlein, That many an hundrid time hath lein To slepe, whan he scholde wake.
And because that Ninus performed it, he cleped it Nineveh after his own name.
And forasmuch as he was the most mighty, and no man might withstand him, he cleped himself the Son of God and sovereign of all the world.
And the hill above Zoar men cleped it then Edom and after men cleped it Seir, and after Idumea.
Trebizond was wont to be holden of the Emperor of Constantinople; but a great man, that he sent for to keep the country against the Turks, usurped the land and held it to himself, and cleped him Emperor of Trebizond.
And they set him in a chair of gold and did him all manner of reverence, and they cleped him Chan, as the white knight called him.
And this:-- Here endth the firste boke of all maner sores the whyche fallen moste commune and withe the grace of gode I will writte the ij Boke the whyche ys cleped the Antitodarie Explicit quod scripcit Thomas Rosse.
He cleped [called] it Valerie and Theofraste,[1] At whiche book he lough alwey ful faste.
The stranger bids him follow him to another place, and leads him to An hous, that domus Dedali, That Laborintus cleped is.
I woot wel that it fareth thus by me As to thy brother Parys an herdesse, Which that y-cleped was Oenone, Wrot in a compleynte of hir hevinesse: 655 Ye say the lettre that she wroot, y gesse?
Therefore he Anamnestes cleped is, And that old man Eumnestes, by their propertis.
This gentle cock had in his governance Seven hennes, for to do all his pleasance, Which were his sisters and his paramours, And wonder like to him, as of colours; Of which the fairest hued on her throat Was cleped faire Damosel Partelote.
He was stout, of great renown, And was y-cleped Sir Guroun.
And for it was in an ash y-found, She cleped it Frain in that stound.
The king hadde a quen of priis, That was y cleped dame Heurodis.
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