Page:TheCloudOfUnknowing 201810.djvu/229

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HERE BEGINNETH THE ONE AND FIFTIETH CHAPTER

That men should have great wanness so that they understand not bodily a thing that is meant ghostly; and specially it is good to be wary in understanding of this word "in" and of this word "up."

AND therefore lean meekly to this blind stirring of love in thine heart. I mean not in thy bodily heart, but in thy ghostly heart, the which is thy will. And be well wary that thou conceive not bodily that that is said ghostly. For truly I tell thee, that bodily and fleshly conceits of them that have curious and imaginative wits be cause of much error.

Ensample of this mayest thou see, by that that I bid thee hide thy desire from God in that that in thee is. For peradventure an I had bidden thee