Clergyman's

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 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

Who was hiër in philosophie
To Aristotle, in our tonge, but thow?
- Thomas Occleve

Who was hiër in philosophie
To Aristotle, in our tonge, but thow?
- Thomas Occleve

The firste fyndere of our faire langage.
- 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

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

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

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

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