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ANd I sawe in the right honde of him / [ A] that sat in ye trone / a boke written with* 1.1 in and on the backside / sealyd with vii. seales. And I sawe a stronge angell which cryed with a loude voyce: Who is worthy to open the boke / and to loose the seales ther of. And no man in heven ner in erth / nether vn∣der the erth / was able to open the boke / nether to loke thereon. And I wepte moche / because no man was founde worthy to open and to re¦de the boke / nether to loke thereon.
And one of the elders sayde vnto me: wepe [ B] not: Beholde a lion beinge of the tribe of Iu¦da / the* 1.2 rote of Dauid / hath obtayned to open the boke / and to lose the vii. seales ther of. And I behelde / and loo / in the myddes of the seate / and of the .iiii. bestes / and in the myddes of the elders / stode a lambe as though he had bene kylled / which had vii. hornes and vii. e∣yes / which are the spretes of God / sent into all the worlde. And he cam and toke the bo∣ke oute of the right honde of him that sate apon the seate.