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CAP. XIII.

[verse 1] And I siȝe [saye O passim.] a beest stiȝinge up of the se, hauynge seuen heedes [heuedis O et T passim.] , and ten hornes; and on [vpon T.] his hornes ten dyademes, and on [vpon T.] his heedes the names [name Q.] of blasfemye. [verse 2] And the beest, whom I siȝe, was lijk to [Om. QV.] a parde [liberde O.] , `or a lipard [or liparde ANQS. Om. TX. or a lybard V.] , and his feet as the feet of a bere, and his mouth as the mouth of a lyoun; and the dragoun ȝaf [ȝaf his vertu and greet power V.] to `the ilke [the ilke best T. that beeste V.] `his vertu, and greet power [Om. V.] . [verse 3] And I siȝe oon of his heedis, as slayn in to deeth; and the wounde of his deeth is [was V.] curid [curid, or helid T.] . And al erthe wondride aftir the beest. [verse 4] And [Om. V.] thei worschipiden the drag|oun, that ȝaf power to the beest; and thei worschipiden the beest, seiynge [and seiden V.] , Who [Who is TV.] lijk to [Om. V.] the beest, and who shal mowe fiȝte with it [him T.] ? [verse 5] And a mouth spekinge greet thinges, and blasfemyes, is [was V.] ȝouun to it [hym T.] ; and power is [was V.] ȝouun to it [Om. M. him T.] , for [Om. SX.] to do in two and fourty monethis. [verse 6] And it [he T.] open|yde his mouth in to [Om. Q.] blasfemyes to [in to O.] God, for [Om. SX.] to blasfeme his name, and his taber|nacle, and hem that dwellen in heuen. [verse 7] And it is [was V.] ȝouun to him for [Om. SX.] to make bateyl with seyntis, and for [Om. SX.] to ouercome hem; and power is [was V.] ȝouun to him, in to al [eche SV.] lynage [lynagis N.] , and puple, and tunge [tunge, or lan|gage AS. langage V.] , and folk. [verse 8] And alle men worschipiden it, that dwellen [dwelliden T.] in erthe, whois names ben not [no O.] writen in the book of lijf of the lomb,

that is [was V.] slayn fro the bigynnynge of the [verse 9] world. If ony man hath [haue X.] eres `of her|inge [Om. V.] , here he. [verse 10] He that `shal lede [leedith V.] in to caytifte, shal go in to caytifte; he [and he S.] that `shal slee in [sleeth with V.] swerd, it bihoueth him for [Om. SX.] to be slayn in [with V.] swerd. This is the [Om. V.] pacience and feith of seyntis. [verse 11] And I siȝe an other beest stiȝing up fro the erthe, and hadde [it hadde TV.] two hornes, lijk the [to the AG sec. m. OST.] lomb; and he [it V.] spake [verse 12] as [of V.] the dragoun, and dide [it dide T.] al the power of the former beest, in his siȝt. And it made the erthe, and men dwellinge in it, for [Om. SX.] to worschipe the first beest, whois plage [wounde OTV.] of deeth is [was V.] curid [not helid T.] . [verse 13] And it dide grete signes, that [and T.] also it made fijr for [Om. SX.] to come doun fro heuen in [Om. Q.] to erthe, in [verse 14] the siȝt of alle men; and [and he T. and it V.] deceyueth men dwellinge in erthe, for signes `the whiche [which OTV. that X.] ben ȝouun to it [hym T.] for [Om. SX.] to do in the siȝt of the beest; seiynge to men dwellinge in erthe, that thei make an ymage of the beest, that hath the wounde [plage, or wounde ANS. plage QX.] of swerd [a swerd A. the swerd G pr. m.] , and lyuede. [verse 15] And it is [was V.] ȝouun to him, that he shulde ȝiue a [Om. ANOQSVX.] spirit to the ymage of the beest, and the [that the V.] ymage of the beest speke. And he shal make, that who [whiche ANOSVX.] euer `shal not honoure [onouren not V.] the ymage of the beest, be slayn. [verse 16] And he [Om. S.] shal make alle, smale and greete, and [Om. QX.] riche and pore, and [Om. Q.] fre men [Om. X.] and seruauntes [boonde men V.] , for [Om. SX.] to haue a caracter [caractre, or α token T. carecter, either prente V.] in the riȝt hond, or [either V passim.] in [verse 17] her forhedis [foreheuedis O.] ; that no man mai bye, or [either V passim.] sille, no but thei [he T.] that han [hath T.] the caracter, `or lettre [Om. OTX.] , or the [Om. Q. his T.] name [name of the beest V.] , or the [Om. V.] noumbre of his name. [verse 18] Heere is wisdom; he that hath vndirstonding, acounte the noumbre of the beest; sotheli [for it is V.] the [Om. ST.] noumbre of man is [Om. V.] , and his noumbre is sixe hundrid sixty and sixe.