Hoccleve or Occleve, Thomas, an early English poet; had an appointment in the Exchequer Office in Henry V.'s time; his chief work is the “Government of Princes,” but his poems have more linguistic than poetic interest; has left us an interesting portrait of his contemporary, Chaucer (1368‒1448).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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