Assignment task: How is the name of 'Lady Cleverness' in the paragraph allegorical?
Lady Cleverness, who spun fine cloth and wove more diligently than even Penelope,and could weave a fine story too, snorted andsaid "I wonder myself. Men and their wars!I had rather face a wall of shields three times than give birth once!If women could write the myth and history books, we'd all be singing a different tune!"
Bill Occam, the barber, known for sharp razor, said "That is true. And it 's the nobles like the fool Roland that cause all the problems. Let Nobility (he glared a bitat the constable) go to the crows. Did not Jesus say "Blessed are the poor? Just think -When Adam delved (= dug for farming) and Eve did span (= spun wool), who then was the Gentleman
Lady Cleverness, seeing the possibility of a quarrel developing, recalling what Jesus said about the peacemakers, asked the Abbot "Old Sir, older I think and more eloquent than Nestor, did you visit Egypt, and, if so, what did you see of interest there