The Complaint is the first part of what is known as the Series.2 Hoccleve laments that although he has been cured of a period of madness, his friends will not recognize his cure, and avoid him and talk behind his back. His social estrangement leads to psychological problems. Finally, however, he decides to be grateful to God for the return of his health, and to ignore what men say in their ignorance. He then draws attention to a book which has given him comfort :'