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
We find a well-known medieval poet called indifferently Occleve and Hoccleve.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
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
The best part of this is an autobiographical prelude Mal Regle de T. Hoccleve, in which he holds up his youthful follies as a warning.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
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 Jusserand, Jean Jules
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