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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.
Thomas Occleve
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
For the more paart, youthe is rebel, Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne.
Thomas Occleve
The firste fyndere of our faire langage.
Thomas Occleve
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
With bookës of his ornat endytyng, That is to al þis land enlumynyng.
Thomas Occleve
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
Who was hiër in philosophie To Aristotle, in our tonge, but thow?
Thomas Occleve