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
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)
The two poems of Lydgate and Hoccleve are as good as Chaucer’s poorest work.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
This rhythmical measure he proceeds to show in Hoccleve, Lydgate, Hawes, Barclay, Skelton, and even Wyatt; and thus concludes, that, it was first abandoned by Surrey, in whom it very rarely occurs.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
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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