. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . -tinuation of such an open-minded, sympathetic, and humorousconception of life as that seen in the Canterbury was Chaucer the student of the Eoman de la Rose, notChaucer the poet of his fellow-men, nor even Chaucer thestudent of Italian literature, after whom the younger versi-fiers stumbled. Of these, Thomas Occlcve (b. l:5()9. d. c. 1450) stood near Chaucer personally, and his verse re
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . -tinuation of such an open-minded, sympathetic, and humorousconception of life as that seen in the Canterbury was Chaucer the student of the Eoman de la Rose, notChaucer the poet of his fellow-men, nor even Chaucer thestudent of Italian literature, after whom the younger versi-fiers stumbled. Of these, Thomas Occlcve (b. l:5()9. d. c. 1450) stood near Chaucer personally, and his verse recalls more often thanany other his masters lighter manner. His character and 522 THE CLOSE OF THE MWDLE AOES. [1399 life reinirul one of Robert Greene. He luid the same loveof pleasure, the same weakness of purpose, the same fatal ease of iX|ircssinn, the same high ideal nf woiiiaiil il All that we know of his life is to be found in his ^hdc liiulc, his Coiinilaint, and his Dialoij with the old lic^ji/ar in theprologue to his (iovernail of Prinees (1411 or 1412), hislongest and most ambitious work. Writti/n with the aim ofwinning the patronage of the young Prince Henry, this ilirror. OCCLEVE AXIJ HIS liOYAl. IATKuX ( liny. 17 H \i.). for Il-iucis was rhioHv based on j^^gidius Colonnas DeKcgiminc Priurulatod life.] LITERA TUBE. 523 1485] She niifjlifc liuu tarycil lier reugeancc a whileTil that some man had egal to the lat be that I solie knew wel tliat this yleMay never man forth l)rynge lyk to the. Occleve also told with siictoss two stories from the (iestaRoinauoruiu, the Talc of Jciislaiis Wife, and the Taleof Jtmathas, hoth in (haiieer stanza.
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