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
That he had quoted out of Warton’s History the passages from Hoccleve and Bradshaw, not having other texts readily at hand, indicates Malone’s haste to publish the essay originally.
From Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) by Kuist, James M.
Indeed, Hoccleve is rarely mentioned, while Lydgate is not only mentioned continually, but continually praised as Chaucer’s equal or even superior.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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
I. Decline.—Chaucer's successors—The decay of art is obvious even to them—The society for which they write is undergoing a transformation—Lydgate and Hoccleve 495 II.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
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