The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

CAP. XII.

[verse 19] And the temple of God in heuen is [was V.] openyd, and the ark of his testament is [was V.] seyn in his temple; and leytinges ben [weren V.] maad, and voyces, and erthe mouyng, and greet hayl. [verse 1] And a [Om. NT.] greet token [signe ANOQSVX.] apperide in heuene; a womman `couerid, or [Om. OV. kouerid X.] cloth|id [clad S. Om. X.] , with the [Om. ANQS.] sunne, and the [Om. Q.] moone vndir hir feet, and in the [hir T.] heed [heued OT.] of hir [Om. T.] a coroun of twelue sterris. [verse 2] And she hau|ynge [hadde chijld V.] in wombe [wombe, or beinge with childe T. the wombe V.] ; and she `criede, ber|inge [crieth, traueilinge of V.] chijld, and is tourmentid, that she bere chijld. [verse 3] And an other tokne [signe ANOQSVX.] is [was V.] seyn in heuen; and lo! a greet reed dragoun, hauynge seuen heedes [heuedes OT.] , and ten hornes, and in the heedis [heuedes OT.] of him seuen diademes. [verse 4] And the tayl of him drewȝ the thridde paart of sterres [the sterris Q.] of heuene, and [and he T.] sente hem in to erthe. And the dragoun stood bi|fore the womman, that was to beringe [bern SX.] chijld, that whan she hadde born chijld, he shulde deuoure hir sone. [verse 5] And she chijldide a `sone male [male son, either knaue chijld V.] , that was to reul|inge [reulen SX.] alle folkes in an yren [yrenen O.] ȝerd; and hir sone is [was V.] rauyschid to God, and to his trone. [verse 6] And the womman fleiȝ in to wil|dirnesse,

where sche hath a place redy [maad redy V.] of God, that she feede [fedde V.] hir there a thou|synd dayes two hundrid and sixty. [verse 7] And a [Om. T.] greet bateyl is [was V.] maad in heuen, and Mychael and his aungels fauȝten with the dragoun. And the dragoun fauȝt, and his [verse 8] aungels; and thei hadden not miȝt [myȝt more Q.] , ne|ther the [Om. AV.] place of hem is [was V.] founden more in heuen. [verse 9] And `the ilke [that X.] dragoun is [was V.] cast doun, the greet olde [elder V.] serpent, that is clepid the Deuel; and Sathanas, that deceyueth [disceyued Q.] al the world, is [he was V.] cast out [doun V.] in to erthe [the erthe Q.] , and his aungels ben [weren V.] sent with him. [verse 10] And I herde a greet voys in heuen, seiynge, Now is maad helthe, and vertu, and kingdom of oure God, and the power of his Crist; for the accuser of oure britheren is cast doun [out S.] , whiche [that X.] accusede hem bifore the siȝt of oure God day and niȝt. [verse 11] And thei ouercamen him for the blood of the lomb, and for the word of his witnessinge; and thei loueden not her soules [lyues V.] , `or lijfes [Om. QSVX.] , vnto [til to ANQSVX. til to the O. vnto the T.] deeth. [verse 12] Therfore `glade ȝe, heuens [ȝe heuenes, be glad V.] , and ȝe that dwellen in hem. Wo to the erthe, and se; for the fend cam doun `to ȝou [Om. T.] , hauynge [and hath V.] greet wraththe, witinge for [that V.] he hath litel tyme. [verse 13] And aftir that the dragoun siȝe [saye O.] , for [that V.] he was cast doun in to erthe, he pursuede the womman, that chijldide a male sone. [verse 14] And two [tweyne A. twei NOQV.] wynges of a greet egle ben [weren V.] ȝouun to `the womman [hir O.] , that she shulde flee in to de|sert, in to hir place, where she is fed [Om. S.] bi tyme, and tymes, and the half of tyme [a tyme O.] , fro the [Om. VX.] face of the serpent. [verse 15] And the ser|pent sente of his mouth aftir the womman watir as [of P.] flood [a flod X.] , that he shulde make hir for [Om. SX.] to be drawen of the flood. [verse 16] And the erthe helpide [help S. halp X.] the womman, and the erthe openyde his mouth, and soupide [soop vp ANOQSV. soupide vp G sec. m. soupide P. sop vp X.] the flood, that the dragoun sente [sente oute Q.] of his

mouth. [verse 17] And the dragoun is [was V.] wroth to [in to ANOQSX. aȝens V.] the womman, and he wente [sente Q.] for [Om. SX.] to make bateyl with othere of hir seed, that kepen the maundementes of God, and han the witnessing of Jhesu [our Lord Jhesu O.] Crist. [verse 18] And he stood on [vpon T.] the grauel of [on N.] the se.