Occleve

American  

[ok-leev] / ˈɒk liv /

noun

1. Hoccleve.

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Example Sentences

De regimine Principum, a poem by Thomas Occleve, written in the reign of Henry IV.

From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Caxton, William

“Thomas Occleve, for the love he bare to his master, caused his picture to be truly drawn in his book ‘De Regimine Principis,’ dedicated to Henry the Fifth.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

In the reign of Henry IV., there was a Club called "La Court de bone Compagnie," of which Occleve was a member, and probably Chaucer.

From Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Occleve, in his work "De Regimine Principium" calls him "the honour of English tonge," "floure of eloquence," and "universal fadir in science," and, above all, "the firste findere of our faire language."

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Two followers of Chaucer, Occleve and Lydgate are also generally mentioned.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow