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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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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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appear in stained glass form in the "Prick of
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