Lydgate and Hoccleve are the two principal successors of Chaucer.
Beyond all doubt, Hoccleve copied the forms of Chaucer's lost virelays.
He retained the Hoccleve passage (p. 6); his point about Wartons basis of selection is effective.
It thus became the business of the scribe, and the portraits in different copies of Hoccleve's works vary accordingly.
A decline in the technique of the five-foot verse begins with Lydgate and Hoccleve.
