The hackee looked soyned and tried to scyle. I belabored him and he cleped, making vigorous oppugnation, and evidently longing for divagation. |
How shal 4336 it an ben quod I. nis er an no ing at by ryt may be cleped eyer happe or ellis auenture of fortune. |
Of which men schulden gladly herken and enquere with al here herte, to wyte, what is penitence, and whens is cleped penitence? |
And when they be all cleped, they enter each after other, and present the white horses to the emperor, and then go their way. |
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 because that Ninus performed it, he cleped it Nineveh after his own name. |