Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue.Hoccleve, Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve, Thomas (hŏk`lēv, ŏk`–), c.1368–c.1450, English poet, an imitator of Chaucer. He was a clerk in the office of the Privy Seal. . Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue. Ed. J.A. Burrow. (Early English Text Society The Early English Text Society is an organization to reprint early English texts, especially those only available in manuscript. Most of its volumes are in Middle English and Old English. , 313.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. lxx + 2 pls. + 140 pp. bibl. $65. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-19-722317-6. The prime concern of this edition is with the restoration of the text of the first two poems in Thomas Hoccleve's series of early fifteenth-century linked writings, now known as his Series. The Durham MS, used for earlier editions, is an incomplete holograph A will or deed written entirely by the testator or grantor with his or her own hand and not witnessed. State laws vary widely in regard to the status of a holographic will. ; missing are all of the authorial Complaint and part of the Dialogue, which were replaced by Tudor antiquary an·ti·quar·y n. pl. an·ti·quar·ies An antiquarian. [Latin ant  qu John Stow's transcript from another source. Burrow works from Hoccleve's holograph corpus and the other five extant scribal copies for his restoration of "an original text." Burrow's restoration is glossed, annotated, and explicated in detail, and a glossary is included, as well as excursi on the two holographs of Learn to Die, Tractatus Deflentis Hominis et Amonentis Racionis, and "falsing of coin" Dialogue 99-196.
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