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
Favell, the editor of Hoccleve, explains as cajolerie, or flattery, by words given by Carpentier in his supplement to “Du Cange.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
The persecution of the Lollards was but an incident in the fifteenth century, little affecting its literature, though the burning of Oldcastle called forth a bad poem by Hoccleve.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
If Chaucer is compared in this respect with his successors Hoccleve and Lydgate a marked difference appears.
From Chaucer's Official Life by Hulbert, James Root
Already by 1420, in Chaucer’s disciple Hoccleve, final e was quite uncertain; in Lydgate it was practically gone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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