A   And it happened when the Ly&obar; spake these wordes vnto þe; Aegle, I sawe, ∧ beholde, the head that afore had the vpperhand, appeared nomore: nether dyd þe; foure wynges appeare any more, that came to him, and were set vp to raygne: and their kyngdome was small and full of vproure. And I saw, and beholde, they appeared nomore, and the whole body of the Aegle was br&ebar;t, and the earth was in greate feare. Th&ebar; awaked I out of the tra&ubar;ce of my mynde, ∧ from greate feare, ∧ sayde vnto my sprete: Lo, this hast thou geuen me in that thou searchest out þe; wayes of the Hyest: lo, yet am I weery in my mynde, ∧ very weake in my sprete, and lytle str&ebar;gth is there in me, for þe; greate feare þt; I receaued this nyght. Therfore wyll I now beseche the Hyest, that he wyll c&obar;forte me vnto the ende: and I sayde, Lorde Lorde, yf I haue founde grace before thy syght, and yf I am iustified with the before many other, and yf my prayer be come vp before thy face, comforte me th&ebar;, and shewe me thy seruaunt thy interpretacion and playne differ&ebar;ce of thys horrible syght, that thou mayest perfectly c&obar;forte my soule: for thou hast iudged me worthy, to shew me the last of tymes.

And he sayde vnto me: thys is the interpretacyon of thys syght. The Aegle whom thou sawest come vp fr&obar; the see, is the kyngdome ^note which was sene in the visyon of thy brother Daniel, but it was not expounded vnto hym, for now I declare it vnto þe;. B   Beholde, þe; dayes come, that there shall ryse vp a kyngdome vpon earth, and it shalbe feared aboue all the Kyngdomes that were before it. In þe; same Kyngdome shal .xii. Kynges raygne, one after another. For the sec&obar;de shall begynne to raygne, and shall haue more tyme then the other twelue: and thys do the twelue wynges signifie, which thou sawest. As for þe; voyce that spake, and that thou sawest go out from the heades, but not from the body, it betokeneth, that after the tyme of þe; Kyngdome there shal aryse great stryuynges, and it shall stande in parell of fallyng: neuertheles it shall not yet fall, but shalbe set into his begynnyng. And þe; eyght vnderwynges whych thou sawest h&abar;ge vnto the wynges of hym, be token, that in him there shall aryse eyght kynges, whose tyme shalbe but small, and theyr yeares swyft, ∧ two of th&ebar; shall beare. But when the myddest tyme commeth, there shalbe foure kepte in the tyme, wh&ebar; his tyme begynneth to come þt; it maye be ended, but two shalbe kepte vnto the ende.

C   And where as thou sawest thre heades restynge, this is the interpretacy&obar;: In his last shall the Hyest rayse vp thre kyngdomes, ∧ call many agayne into th&ebar;, ∧ they shall haue the dominion of the earth, and of those that dwell therin, &wt; moch labour aboue all those that were before th&ebar;. Therfore are they called þe; heades of the Aegle: for it is they that shall brynge forth hys wyckednes agayne, and that shal perfourme and fynish his last. And where as þu; sawest, that þe; greate head appeared nomore, it signifieth, that one of them shall dye vpon his bed, and yet &wt; payne, for the two that remayne, shalbe slayne with the swerde. For the swerde of the one shall deuoure the other, but at þe; last shall he fall thorow the swerde hym selfe.

And where as þu; sawest two vnderwynges vpon the head that is on the ryght syde, it signyfieth that it is they,, whome þe; Hyest hath kepte vnto theyr ende: thys is a small kyngdome, and full of trouble. The Lyon wh&obar; thou sawest rysinge vp out of þe; wodd, and roarynge, and speakynge vnto the Aegle, ∧ rebukynge him for hys vnryghteousnesse, is the wynde, which þe; Hyest hath kepte for them, ∧ for theyr wyckednesse vnto the ende: he shall reproue th&ebar;, and r&ebar;te them asunder before them. For he shall set th&ebar; lyuynge before the iudgement, D   and shall rebuke them: for the residue of my people shall he deliuer with trouble those that be preserued ouer myne endes: and he shall make the ioyfull vntyll the commyng of the daye of iudgement, wherof I haue spoken vnto the fr&obar; the begynnynge. This is the dreame þt; thou sawest, ∧ thys is the interpretacyon. Thou onely hast bene mete to knowe the secrete of the Hyest.

Therfore write all these thynges þt; thou hast sene in a boke, and hyde th&ebar;, and teach th&ebar; the wyse &ibar; the people, whose hertes thou knowest maye comprehende and kepe these secretes. But wayte þu; here thy selfe yet seuen dayes moo, that it maye be shewed the, whatsoeuer it pleaseth the Hyest to declare vnto the, and with that he went his waye.

And when all the people perceaued, that the seuen dayes were past, and I not come agayne into the cytie, they gathered th&ebar; all together from the least vnto þe; most, and came vnto me, and sayde: what haue we offended the? ∧ what euell haue we done agaynst the, that thou forsakest vs, and syttest here in thys place? For of all people thou onely art left vs, as a grape of the vyne, and as a candell in a darcke place, ∧ as an hau&ebar; ∧ ship preserued from the t&ebar;pest. Haue we not els aduersite ynough, but thou must forsake vs Were it not better for vs, that we had bene brent wyth Syon? For we are not better, then they that dyed there: and they wepte &wt; loude voyce. Th&ebar; answered I them ∧ sayd: Be of good comforte O Israell, and be not heuy thou house of Iacob: for þe; Hyest hath

you in remembra&ubar;ce, and the mightye hath not forgott&ebar; you in temptacion. As for me, I haue not forsak&ebar; you, nether am I departed from you, but am come into thys place to praye, because of the mysery of Israell: þt; I myght seke mercy for the lowe estate of youre S&abar;ctuary. And now go youre waye home euery m&abar;, and after these dayes wyll I come vnto you. So the people went their waye in the cytye, lyke as I comma&ubar;ded them: but I remained styll in the felde seuen dayes, as the Angell bad me, and dyd eate onely of the floures of the felde, and had my meate of the herbes in those dayes.

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