page_title: Prick of Conscience
section_title: Appearance in stained glass
hierarchical_section_title: Prick of Conscience / Appearance in stained glass
caption_attribution_description: English: Bottom central panel of the Prick of Conscience 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. 5.753-54).
context_page_description: The Prick of Conscience is a Middle English poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection. It is, in terms of the number of surviving manuscripts, the best attested poem in Middle English, with over 130 manuscripts. It was attributed to Richard Rolle in some manuscripts, but contemporary scholars consider the poem anonymous.
context_section_description: Unusually, passages from and illustrations of the account of the Fifteen Signs of Doom in the Prick of Conscience appear in stained glass form in the 'Prick of Conscience Window' in All Saints' Church, North Street, York. The window is thought to have been constructed around 1410–20.
caption: Bottom central panel of the Prick of Conscience 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. 5.753-54).
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