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Thomas Occleve
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“If that thise men that lovers hem pretende, To women weren feythfull good and trewe, And dreden hem to deceyven or offende, Women, to love hem, wolde nat eschewe; But every day hath man an herte newe: Yt, upon oon, abide can no while. What fore ys it, swich a wight to be-gile?”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Letter of Cupid", line 267; vol. 1, p. 83; translation from Thelma S. Fenster and Mary Carpenter Erler (eds.) Poems of Cupid, God of Love (Leiden: Brill, 1990) p. 191.
“For the more paart, youthe is rebel, Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne.”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O maister deere and Fadir reverent, Mi maister Chaucer, flour of eloquence, Mirour of fructuous entendement, O, universel fadir in science! Allas! þat þou thyn excellent prudence In þi bed mortel mightist naght by-qwethe; What eiled deth? allas! whi wolde he sle the?”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1961; vol. 3, p. 71; translation from Roger Sherman Loomis and Rudolph Willard (eds.) Medieval English Verse and Prose in Modernized Versions (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948) p. 351.
“With bookës of his ornat endytyng, That is to al þis land enlumynyng.”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1973; vol. 3, p. 71; translation from Terry Jones et al. Who Murdered Chaucer? (London: Methuen, 2004) p. 4.
“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.”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 2078; vol. 3, pp. 75-6; modernized-spelling version from Henry S. Pancoast (ed.) English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson (New York: H. Holt, 1915) pp. 81-2.
“Who was hiër in philosophie To Aristotle, in our tonge, but thow?”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 2087; vol. 3, p. 76; translation from George Carver (ed.) The Catholic Tradition in English Literature (New York: Doubleday, 1928) p. 16.
“The firste fyndere of our faire langage.”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 4978; vol. 3, p. 179; modernized-spelling version from Geoffrey Hughes A History of English Words (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000) p. 126.