bemeaneth

Updated: April 30, 2025

And ever when thou feelest sweetness and comfort in thy doing, then He breaketh this fruit and giveth thee part of thine own present. And that that thou feelest is so hard, and so straitly stressing thine heart without comfort in the first beginning, that bemeaneth that the greenness of the fruit hanging on the tree, or else newly pulled, setteth thy teeth on edge.

- The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521