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Hoccleve's Works. I.

The minor poems in the Phillipps Ms. 8151 (Cheltenham) and the Durham Ms. III. 9.: Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall
Hoccleve, Thomas (1370?-1450?)

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HOCCLEVE'S MINOR POEMS.
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 I. 
The Compleynte of the Virgin before the Cross.
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[II.] Ceste feust faicte au temps que le Roy Henri le Ut, (que Dieu pardoint!) feust a Hampton sur son primer passage vers Harflete.
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[III.] Cy ensuyt la male regle de T. Hoccleue.
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[IV.] Ceste balade ensuyante feust faite au tres noble Roy .H. le. Ut., (que dieu pardoint!) le iour que les seigneurs de son Roialme lui firent lour homages a Kenyngtoun.
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[V. AND VI.] Cestes balades ensuyantes feurent faites au tresnoble Roy H. le quint, (que dieu pardoint!) & au treshonourable conpaignie du Iarter.
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[VII.] Ad beatam Uirginem.
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[VIII.] Ceste balade ensuyante feust faite tost apres que les osses du Koy Richard feurent apportez a Westmouster.
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[IX.] [Balade to my gracious Lord of York.]
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[X.] Ad beatam Uirginem.
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[XI.] Ce feust mys en le liure de monseigneur Iohan, lors nommez / ore Regent de France & Duc de Bedford.
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[XII.] [Balade to my Lord the Chancellor.]
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[XIII.] Cestes Balade & chanceon ensuyantes feurent faites a mon Meistre. H. Somer, quant il estoit Souztresorer.
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[XIV.] Ceste balade ensuyante feust mise en le fin du liure del Regiment des Princes.
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[XV.] Etem au Roy, que dieu pardoint!
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[XVI.] [Balade to my maister Carpenter.]
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[XVII.] Ceste balade ensuyante feust, par la Court de bone conpaignie, enuoiee a lonure sire Henri Sommer, Chaunceller de leschequer, & vn de la dicte Court.
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[XVIII.] Ceste balade ensuyante feust translatee au commandement de mon Meistre Robert Chichele.
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HOCCLEVE'S COMPLAINT, &c.
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XX. Thomas Hocclive['s Complaint.]
  
[The Prolog.]
  
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XXI. [Dialogus cum Amico.]
  
XXII. ffabula de quadam Emperatrice Romana.
  
XXIII. incipit ars vtillissima sciendi mori .. Cum omnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant & c' . .
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XXIV. Hic additur alia fabula ad instanciam amici mei predilecti assiduam
  
[Prolog.]
  
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[Go, smal book / to the noble excellence]

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[XI.] Ce feust mys en le liure de monseigneur Iohan, lors nommez / ore Regent de France & Duc de Bedford.

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Vn-to the rial egles excellence,
I, humble Clerc, with al hertes humblesse,
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This book presente / & of your reuerence
Byseeche I pardon and foryeuenesse,
Þat, of myn ignorance & lewdenesse,
Nat haue I write it in so goodly wyse
As þat me oghte vn-to your worthynesse.
Myn yen / hath custumed bysynesse
So daswed / þat I may no bet souffyse.

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I dreede lest þat my maister Massy,
Þat is of fructuous intelligence,
Whan he beholdith how vnconnyngly
My book is metrid / how raw my sentence
How feeble eek been my colours ; his prudence
Shal sore encombrid been of my folie;
But yit truste I / þat his beneuolence
Compleyne wole myn insipience
Secreetly / & what is mis / rectifie.

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Thow book / by licence of my lordes grace,
To thee speke I / and this I to thee seye:
I charge thee / to shewe thow thy face
Beforn my seid Maistir / & to him preye
On my behalue / þat he peise and weye
What myn entente is, þat I speke in thee,
For rethorik hath hid fro me the keye
Of his tresor / nat deyneth hir nobleye
Dele with noon so ignorant as me!
Cest tout.
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