Thomas Occleve Quotes

d. 1426 England

Thomas Occleve (or Hoccleve) (c. 1368 – 1426) was an English poet and civil servant. Occleve and John Lydgate are usually seen as the leading English poets of the early 15th century.

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Also known as: Thomas Hoccleve

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For the more paart, youthe is rebel,
Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne.

La Male Regle (1405)

The firste fyndere of our faire langage.

Regement of Princes (1412)

With bookës of his ornat endytyng,
That is to al þis land enlumynyng.

Regement of Princes (1412)

O yowthe allas why wilt thow nat enclyne,
And un-to reuled reform bowe thee?
Syn resoun is the verray streighte lyne
Þat ledith folk un-to felicitee.

La Male Regle (1405)

Many a servant un-to his lord seith,
"Þat al the world spekith of him honour,"
Whan the contrarie of þat is sooth, in feith.

La Male Regle (1405)

Who was hiër in philosophie
To Aristotle, in our tonge, but thow?

Regement of Princes (1412)

And fadir Chaucer fayn wolde han me taght;
But I was dul and lernèd lite or naght.
Allas! my worthi maister honorable,
This landës verray tresor and richesse.

Regement of Princes (1412)

If that thise men that lovers hem pretende,
To women weren feythfull good and trewe,
And dreden hem to deceyven or offende,
Women, to love hem, wolde nat eschewe;
But every day hath man an herte newe:
Yt, upon oon, abide can no while.
What fore ys it, swich a wight to be-gile?

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Occleve (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.