The marginal portrait Hoccleve had painted into his poem so that readers would remember his master’s face.
Shaped: Cut XLVI, Nat Worth a Toord (Chaucer).
Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.
Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth The Regiment of Princes (BL Harley MS 4866) (Manuscript, early fifteenth century), the work of Thomas Hoccleve and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from British Library. Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.
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Hoccleve, Thomas.
The Regiment of Princes (BL Harley MS 4866).
Manuscript, early fifteenth century.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from British Library,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaucer_Hoccleve.png.
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