The .ix. Chapter.¶ The fyfte and syxt angelles blowe theyr trompettes.
The starre falleth from heau&ebar;. The locustes come
out of the smoke. The fyrste wo is paste. The foure
Angels, that were bounde are lowsed, and the thyrde
parte of men is kylled.
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AAnd the fyfte Angel blewe, and
I sawe a starre fall from heauen
vnto the earth, And to hym
was geuen the keye of the bottomlesse
pyt. And he opened the
bottomlesse pyt, and there arose the smoke of
a great fornace. And the sunne, and the ayer
were darkened by the reason of the smoke of
the pytt. And there came out of the smoke locustes
vpon the earth, and vnto them was geuen
power as the Scorpi&obar;s of the earth haue
power. And it was commaunded them, that
they should not hurt the grasse of the earth,
neyther any grene thinge, neither any tree,
but onely those men which haue not the seale
in their foreheades, and to them was commaunded
that they should not kyll them, but
that they should be vexed fyue monethes, and
theyr payne was as the payne that commeth
of a scorpion, when he hath stonge a man.
And in those dayes shal men seke death, and
shal not finde it, and shall desyre to dye, and
death shal flye from them.
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Bnote&rhand; And the similitude of the locustes was
lyke vnto horsses prepared vnto battayl, and
on theyr heades were as it were crounes, lyke
vnto gold and their faces were as it had bene
the faces of men. And they had heere as the
heere of women. And theyr teeth were as the
teeth of Lyons. And they had habbergions,
as it were habbergyons of Iron. And the
sounde of theyr wynges, was as the sounde
of charettes, when many horsses runne together
to battayle. And they had tayles lyke vnto
Scorpyons, and there were stynges in
theyr tayles. And their power was to hurte
men fyue monethes. And they had a kynge
ouer them, whych is the angel of the bottomlesse
pyt, whose name in the Hebrue tonge, is note
Abodon, but in the Greke tonge, Appollion.
One wo is paste, and behold two woes come
after thys.
&rhand; And the syxte angel blewe, and I hearde
a voyce from the .iiij. corners of the golden
aultare, C which is before God, sayinge to the
syxte angel, which had the trompe, louse the
liij. angelles, whyche are bounde in the great
riuer Euphrates. And the .iiij. angels were
loused, whyche were prepared for an houre,
for a daye, for a moneth, and for an yere, for
to slea the thyrd parte of men. And the number
of horsmen of warre, were tw&ebar;ty tymes
ten thousand. And I heard the numbre of th&ebar;.
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And thus I sawe the horsses in a vision, and
them that sate on them hauynge fyry habbergions
of a Iacinct colour, and brimstone, and
the heades of the horsses were as the heades
of Lyons. And out of their mouthes wente
forth fyre and smoke, and brymstone. D And of
these .iij. was the thirde parte of men kylled,
that is to say, of fyre, smoke, and brymstone,
whych proceded out of the mouthes of them.
For theyr power was in their mouthes and
in theyr tayles, for theyr tayles were lyke vnto
serpentes, and had heades, and wyth them
they dyd hurt. And the remnaunt of the men
which were not kylled by these plages, repented
not of the dedes of their handes, that they
should not worship deuyls, and Images of
gold, and syluer, and brasse, and stone, and of
wood, whych neyther can se, neyther heare,
neyther go. Also they repented not of theyr
murther, and of theyr sorcery, neyther of their
fornicacion, neither of their thefte.
