Occleve
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Fortunately Lydgate and Occleve and Hawes showed the dangers rather than the attractions of strictness, and the contemporary practice of alliterative irregulars kept alive the appetite for liberty.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The old man addresses Occleve as his son, and the poet calls his aged monitor father.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell
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
Occleve, a little later, has no doubt as to the beneficial effects of perusing the romances.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.
Oblivion had overtaken Gower and Occleve, and Lydgate and Stephen Hawes, and Skelton, and Henryson and James I. of Scotland, and well-nigh Chaucer himself—all the mediaeval poetry of the schools, in short.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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