(2a) [}ADRIANUM.}] Yt ys
cleped of Adryan, Emperor of Rome, be wyche yt compownde.
And in pe first day of Octobir deyed Pope Boneface pe IX, and in his stede was chosen pe bischop of Bononie,
cleped Innocent pe VII.
Before leaving, "He
cleped togider his barouns, /Erls, lordes of renouns" (Sands 177-178/Tolkien, 201-226).
Combining the resonance of a headline with the seductive appeal of gossip, that voice makes connections between the world of literature and the wide world of the "news" or "tydynges." For instance, The Master of Game gets the heading "The booke of huntyng, the whiche is
cleped the Maystre of the game, contreved and made by my lord of York, that dyed at Achincourt, the day of the batayle, in his soverain lordes service," and The Temple of Glas is presented as "Une soynge moult plesaunt, fait a la request d'un amoreux, par Lidegate, le Moygne de Bury." (77)
But destyne, certes, departeth and ordeyneth alle thinges singulerly and devyded in moevynges in places, in formes, in tymes, as thus: lat the unfoldynge of temporal ordenaunce, assembled and oonyd in the lokynge of the devyne thought, be
cleped purveaunce, and thilke same assemblynge and oonynge, devyded and unfolden by tymes, lat that ben called destyne.
The "liquor" that forms the by-products of digestion By secret wayes, that none might it espy, Was close conuaid, and to the back-gate brought, That
cleped was Port Esquiline, whereby It was auoided quite, and throwne out priuily.
[thorn]us ende[thorn] [thorn]e abbeye of [thorn]e holygost [thorn]at set is in / conscience In whiche ben foundet alle goode uertues / and alle foule vices ben driuen out And [thorn]us / bigynne[thorn] [thorn]e chartre of [thorn]e same abbey of [thorn]e holi-/gost Her is [thorn]e bok [thorn]at speke[thorn] of a place [thorn]at is
cleped / [thorn]e abbey of [thorn]e holigost [thorn]e wzuche [sic] schulde be founded/in clene conscience In wzuche abbey as ze bok tel/le[thorn] dwelle[thorn] nine and twenti gostliche ladyes A/monge whuche Charite is abbesse wisdam prioresse / mekenesse subprioresse [thorn]er is also pouert and clannesse ...
His debilitating fever (95-96, 127-28), Venus's tears, and the entire love affair can be reduced to astrological metaphors: planets "kovered with the bemes of the Sunne" were "
cleped combust, or brent" (North 309, citing Alkabucius); Venus conventionally brings rain and moisture (North 310); "the common verb used to describe conjunction in the astrological manuals is copulare" (Wood 147); and even love and hate were a "general metaphor for expressing the accord or discord supposed to obtain between planets in aspect with one another" (Laird 230).
MED quotes Ipotis: 'the thridde [order of angels] is
cleped Trones, the feorre Dominaciones, the fyfthe is Principatus, the sixte is Potestates'.
and desyren to be
cleped maystres and lordes', recalling Langland's refusal to countenance such reverence or Chaucer's Friar glorifying in the title of mayster.
And aboue bat vale is the mount of Olyuete And it is
cleped so for the plentee of Olyues bat growen bere.