For the more paart, youthe is rebel, Un-to reson & hatith h… - Thomas Hoccleve

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

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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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.

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

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.

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

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