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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.
 II. 
[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.
  
[Go, smal book / to the noble excellence]

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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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The Kyng of Kynges regnyng ouer al,
Which stablisshid hath in eternitee
His hy might / þat nat varie he may ne shal,
So constant is his blisful deitee,
My lige lord / this grace yow graunte he,
That your estaat rial / which þat this day

videlicet xxjo die Marcij. Ao regni vostri primo.


Haath maad me lige to your souereyntee,
In reule vertuous continue may.
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God dreede / & ficche in him your trust verray!
Be clene in herte / & loue chastitee!
Be sobre / sad / iust / trouthe, obserue alway!
Good conseil take / & aftir it do yee!
Be humble in goost / of your tonge attempree;
Pitous & merciable in special;
Prudent / debonaire, in mesure free;
Nat ouer large / ne vn-to gold thral!

3

Be to your liges also sheeld & wal!
Keepe and deffende hem from aduersitee!
Hir wele and wo / in your grace lyth al.
Gouerneth hem in lawe and equitee;
Conquere hir loue / & haue hem in cheertee!
Be holy chirches Champioun eek ay;
Susteene hir right / souffre no thyng doon be
In preiudice of hir, by no way!

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Scilicet. ecclesiam sanctam.

Strengthe your modir / in chacyng away
Therrour / which sones of iniquitee
Han sowe ageyn the feith / it is no nay,
Yee ther to bownde been of duetee;
Your office is it / now, for your seurtee,
Souffreth nat Crystes feith to take a fal!
Vn-to his peple / and youres, cheerly see,
In conseruyng of your estat real!

5

Syn god hath sent yow wit substancial,
And kynges might / vertu, putte in assay!
And, lige lord / thogh my conceit be smal,
And nat my wordes peynte fressh and gay,
But clappe and iangle foorth, as dooth a iay,
Good wil to yow shal ther noon faille in me,
Byseechyng vn-to god, þat, to his pay,
Yee may gouerne your hy dignitee.
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