Hoccleve
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It was used by Thomas Hoccleve in the Letter of Cupid to describe someone who was slovenly or dirty.
From BBC ● May 9, 2011
That the worthy Lydgate and Hoccleve, without any of Chaucer's good luck, failed to tread in his footsteps, is thus hardly surprising.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
That he had quoted out of Warton’s History the passages from Hoccleve and Bradshaw, not having other texts readily at hand, indicates Malone’s haste to publish the essay originally.
From Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) by James M. Kuist
Lydgate and Hoccleve are the two principal successors of Chaucer.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Hoccleve was not, to be sure, as prolific as Lydgate, but it is difficult to understand why his work, which compares favourably in quality with Lydgate’s, attracted so much less attention.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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