A   And I loked, and lo, a lambe stode on the mo&ubar;t Syon, and with him .C. and xliiij. thousande hauynge his fathers name wrytten in their forheades. And I herde a voyce from heauen, as the sounde of many waters, and as the voyce of a greate thondre. And the voyce that I herde, was as the harpers that playe vpon their harpers. And they songe as it were a newe songe, before the seate, ∧ before þe; foure beestes, and the elders, and no man coulde learne þt; songe, but the hondred and xliiij.M. which were redemed from the earth. These are they, which were not defyled with wemen, for they are virgyns. These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth. ^noteThese were redemed from men, beynge the fyrst frutes vnto God and to the lambe, and in their mouthes was founde no gyle. For they are without&ebar; spot before the trone of God.

B   And I sawe an angell flye in the myddes of heauen hauinge an euerlastinge Gospell, to preache vnto them that syt and dwell on the earth, and to all nacions, kinreddes, and t&obar;ges and people, say&ebar;ge with a lowde voyce: Feare God, and geue honour to him, for the houre of his iudgement is come: and worshippe him ^note that made heauen and earth, and the see, and the fountaynes off water. And there folowed another angell, sayenge: She is fallen, she is fallen: eu&ebar; Babilon that greate cite, for she made all nacions drynke off the wyne off hyr whordome. ^note

C   And the thyrde angel folowed th&ebar;, sayenge with a loude voyce: Yf eny man worshippe the beest and his ymage, and receaue his marke in his forhed, or on his honde, the same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God, which is powred in the cuppe of his wrath. And he shalbe puny&esset;hed in fyre and brymstone, before the holy Angels, and before the lambe.

^noteAnd the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore. And they haue no rest daye ner nyght, which worshippe the beast and his ymage, and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name. ^noteHere is the pacience of sayntes. Heare are they that kepe the commaundementes and the faith off Iesu.

D   And I herde a voyce from heauen, sayenge vnto me: wryte: Blessed are þe; deed, which here after dye in the LORDE. Yee the sprete sayeth, that they rest from their laboures, for their workes folowe them. And I loked and beholde, a whyte cloude, and vp&obar; þe; cloude one syttynge like vnto the sonne of man, hauinge on his heed a golden crowne, and in his h&obar;de a sharpe sykle. And another angell came out of the temple, cryenge with a loude voyce to him that sat on the cloude: ^note Thruste in thy sycle and reepe: for the tyme is come to reepe, for the corne of the earth is rype. And he that sat on þe; cloude thrust in his sykle on the earth, and the earth was reeped.

E   And another angell came out of the temple, which is in heauen, hauinge also a sharpe sykle. And another angel came out from the aultre, which had power ouer fyre, and

cryed with a loude crye vnto hym that had the sharpe syckle, and sayde: Thruste in thy sharpe syckle, and gather the clusters of þe; earth, for hir grapes are rype. And the angell thrust in his syckle on the erthe, and cut downe the grapes of the vynyarde of the earth, and cast them in to the greate wynefat of þe; wrath of God: ∧ the wynefat was trodden without the cite, and bloude came out of the fat, euen vnto the horsse brydles by the space of a thousande and sixe hundreth furlonges.

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