Many a servant un-to his lord seith, "Þat al the world spek… - Thomas Hoccleve

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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.

Thomas Hoccleve

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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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John Lydgate Geoffrey Chaucer John Skelton Edmund Spenser John Gower

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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.

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

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

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. - Thomas Hoccleve

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