Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BE-SPEAK', v.t. [pret. bespoke; pp. bespoke, bespoken. be and speak.]

1. To speak for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak a seat in a public coach. My lady is bespoke. – Shak.
2. To forebode; to foretell. They started fears, and bespoke dangers, to scare the allies. – Swift.
3. To speak to; to address. This sense is mostly poetical. He thus the queen bespoke. – Dryden.
4. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances; as, his manners bespeak him a gentleman.