Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. VI.
1 And I si&yogh;e, that the lomb hadde openid
oon of the seuen signetes. And Y herde
oon of the foure beestis seiynge, as a voys
of thundre, Come, and see.
2 And I si&yogh;e,
`and lo! a whijt hors; and he that sat on
him hadde a bowe, and a coroun is &yogh;ouun
to him. And he wente out ouercomynge,
that he shulde ouercome.
3 And whan he
hadde openyd the secounde seel, I herde
the secounde beest seiynge, Come thou,
and see.
4 And an other reed hors wente
out; and it is &yogh;ouun to him `that sat on
him, that he shulde take pees fro erthe,
and that thei slee to gydere hem silf; and
a greet swerd is &yogh;ouun to him.
5 And whan
he hadde openyd the thridde seel, I herde
the thridde beest seiynge, Come thou,
and see. And loo! a blak hors; and he
that sat vpon him hadde a balaunce in
his hond.
6 And I herde as a voys in the
mydle of foure beestis, seiynge, A bilibre
of whete, `that is, a wey&yogh;t of two pound,
for oo peny, and thre bilibres of barly for
oo peny; and hirte thou not wijn, and
oyle.
7 And whan he hadde openyd the
fourthe seel, I herde a voys of the fourthe
beest, seiyng, Come thou, and see.
8 And
loo! a paal hors; and the name Deeth to
him that sat on him, and helle suede
him. And power is &yogh;ouun to him on
foure partis of the erthe, for to sle with
swerd, and hungre, and deeth, and with
beestis `of erthe.
9 And whan he hadde
openyd the fyuethe seel, I si&yogh;e vndir an
auter the soules of men sleyn for the word
of God, and for witnessing that thei hadden.
-- --
10 And thei crieden with greet voys,
seiynge, Hou longe, Lord, holy and trewe,
demyst thou not, and vengist our blood of
thes that dwellen in erthe?
11 `And whijte
stooles, `for ech soule a stoole, ben &yogh;ouun
to hem; and it is seid to hem, that thei
shulden reste &yogh;it a litel tyme, til the euen
seruauntes of hem be fulfillid, and the
britheren of hem, that ben to be slayn, as
and thei.
12 And I si&yogh;e, whan he hadde
openyd the sixte seel, and lo! a greet
erthe mouyng is maad; and the sunne is
maad blak, as a sack of heyre, and al the
moone is maad as blood.
13 And sterres of
heuen fellen doun vpon the erthe, as a
fijge tree sendith his vnripe fyges, whan it
is mouyd of a greet wijnd.
14 And heuen
wente awey, as a book infoldid; and all
mounteyns and ijles ben moued fro her
places.
15 And kinges of erthe, and princes,
and tribunes, and riche, and stronge, and
ech seruaunt, and fre man, hidden hem in
dennes and stoones of hillis.
16 And thei seien
to hillis and stoonys, Falle &yogh;e on us, and
hijde &yogh;e us fro the face of the sittynge
on troone, and fro wrath of the lomb;
for the greet day of her wrath cometh,
17
and who shal mowe stonde?
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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