AnoteAnd the fyfte angell blewe / and I sawe
a stare fall from heven vnto the erth.
And to him was geven the kaye of the
bottomlesse pytt. And he opened the botomlesse
pytt / and there arose the smoke of a grett fornace.
And the sunne / and the ayer were darkned
by the reason of the smoke of the pytt.
And there cam out of the smoke locustes vp&obar;
the erth: and vnto them was gev&ebar; power as
the scorpions of the erth have power. And it
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The .viii fygure.[unresolved image link] hurt þe; grasse of the erth: nether eny grene thinge:
nether eny tree: but only those m&ebar; which
have not þe; seale in their forhed&es; / ∧ to th&ebar; was
c&obar;maunded þt; they shulde not kyll th&ebar; / note but þt;
they shulde be vexed v monethes / ∧ their payne
was as the payne þt; c&obar;meth of a scorpion /
wh&ebar; he hath st&obar;ge a m&abar;. And in those dayes
shall men seke deeth / ∧ shall not fynde it / and
B And the similitude of the locustes was lyke
vnto horses prepared vnto battayll / and on
their heddes were as it were crownes / lyke vnto
golde: and their faces were as it had bene
the faces of men. And they had heare as the
heare of wemen. And their tethe were as the
tethe of lyons. And they had habbergions /
as it were habbergions of yron. And the sounde
of their wynges / was as the sounde of charettes
when many horsses runne to gedder to
battayle. And they had tayles lyke vnto scorpions
/ and there were stinges in their tayles.
And their power was to hurt men v. monethes.
And they had a kynge over them / which
is the angell of the bottomlesse pytt / note whose
name in the hebrew tonge / is Abadon: but in
the greke tonge / Apollion. One woo is past /
and beholde two wooes come after this.
C And the sixte. angell blewe / and I herd a
voyce from the iiii. corners of the golden aultre
which is before god / saying to the sixte angell
/ which had the trompe: Loose the iiii. angelles
/ which are bounde in the grett ryver
Eufrates. And the iiii. angelles were loosed
which wer prepared for an houre / for a daye / note
for a moneth / and for a yeare / for to slee the
thyrde part of m&ebar;. And the nombre of horsm&ebar;
of warre / were twenty tymes xM. And I herde
the n&obar;bre of them. And thus I sawe the
horses in a vision ∧ them þt; sate on th&ebar; havynge
fyry habbergions of a Iacyncte coloure / ∧
brymstony / and the heeddes of þe; horses werre
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The .ix. fygure.[unresolved image link] as the heeddes of lyons. And out of their mouthes
went forth fyre and smoke / and brymstone.
D And of these iii. was the thyrde parte of
men kylled: that is to saye / of fyre / smoke / and
brymstone / which proceded out of the mouthes
of them: For their power was in their
mouthes and in their tayles: for their tayles
were lyke vnto serp&ebar;tes / and had heedes / and
with them they dyd hurt: And the remnaunt
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of the m&ebar; which were not kylled by these plages
/ repented not of the dedes of their hondes
that they shulde not worshyppe devyls / and
ymages of golde / and sylver / and brasse / and
stone / and of wood / which nether can se / nether
heare / nether goo. Also they repented not
of their murther / and of their sorcery nether
of their fornacion nether of their thefte.
