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itself says nothing to identify its date, but it can be roughly dated from works which refer to it, showing that it existed when they were written, and from works on which it draws, showing that those works existed when it was written. On this basis its editors place it "in the second quarter of the
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Window in All Saints Church, North Street, York, showing the second sign of doom: "þe seconde day þe see sall be so lawe as all men sall it see" (cf. "¶The secounde day hit shal be low / That unnethe men shul hitte knowe" in the main manuscript version, ll.
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poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection. It is, in terms of the number of surviving manuscripts, the most popular poem written in English before print, with over 130 known copies.
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or Middle English poem. A wide range of churchmen and lay men and women owned or accessed manuscripts of the poem; Agnes Paston, a member of the family who produced the
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The text is divided into seven sections: man's sinfulness, the transient nature of the world, death, purgatory, doomsday and its tokens, hell, and heaven.
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Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle Hermit of Hampole and Materials for His Biography (New York: Heath, 1927), pp. 372–97.
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s popularity can be judged from the fact that it survives in about 130 manuscripts – more than any other
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The 'Pricke of Conscience' ('Stimulus Conscientiae'), A Northumbrian Poem by Richard Rolle de Hampole
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The poem also contains no identifying information about its author. Five manuscripts attribute it to
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pp 88–89 of Leeds University, Brotherton Library, BC MS 500 (Prick of Conscience).
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Richard Morris's 'Prick of Conscience': A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text
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Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience: A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text
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Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience: A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text
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The 'Pricke of Conscience': An Annotated Edition of the Southern Recension
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appear in stained glass form in the "Prick of Conscience Window" in
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A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience
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Unusually, passages from and illustrations of the account of the
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Ayenbite of Inwyt

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Middle English
Richard Rolle
Robert Grosseteste
Alcuin of York
Hope Emily Allen
Old
Paston Letters
Great Yarmouth
John Lydgate
Fall of Princes
Chaucer
Parson's Tale
Canterbury Tales

Fifteen Signs of Doom
All Saints' Church, North Street, York
The 'Pricke of Conscience' ('Stimulus Conscientiae'), A Northumbrian Poem by Richard Rolle de Hampole
Prik of Conscience
Prik of Conscience
'The Pricke of Conscience or the Fifteen Signs of Doom Window in the Church of All Saints, North Street, York'
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14th-century poems
Christian poetry
Middle English poems
Middle English literature
Works of unknown authorship

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