Ayenbite of Inwyt

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The Ayenbite of Inwyt —also Aȝenbite (Agenbite) of Inwit; literally, the "again-biting of inner wit," or the Remorse (Prick) of Conscience is the title of a confessional prose work written in a Kentish dialect of Middle English.

Rendered from the French original, one supposes by a "very incompetent translator,"^[1] it is generally considered more valuable as a record of Kentish pronunciation in the mid-14th century than exalted as a work of literature.