Hoccleve

[hok-leev]

noun

1. Thomas, 1370–1450, English poet.

Example Sentences

For “de Regimine Principium of Hoccleve” read “de Regimine Principum of Lydgate” and so on p.

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Dr. Furnivall has pointed out a line of Hoccleve’s which certainly seems to imply that the younger poet was present at his master Chaucer’s death-bed.

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A manuscript of the British Museum containing poems by Chaucer’s contemporaries, Lydgate and Hoccleve, needed rebinding; and the old binding was found, as often, to have been strengthened with two sheets of parchment pasted inside the covers.

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What even the cleric Murimuth saw, and what Chaucer and his friend Hoccleve saw still more intimately, was the Haroun al-Raschid who went about “in simple array alone” to hear what his people said of him; the “mighty victor, mighty lord” of Sluys, Crécy and Calais; the King who in war would freely hazard his own person, “raging like a wild boar, and crying ‘Ha Saint Edward!

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Favell, the editor of Hoccleve, explains as cajolerie, or flattery, by words given by Carpentier in his supplement to “Du Cange.”

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