" "Sir Richard," said the Bishop in a reproachful tone, "methinks thou and I are companions and fellow sufferers in this den of" He was about to say "thieves," but he stopped suddenly and looked askance at Robin Hood.

"Nay," quoth he, "fear me not, sweet maid, methought thee other than thou artI grieve that I did fright theeforgive me, I pray," so saying, he sighed and bowing full humbly, turned, but even so paused again: "Thou art methinks the Reeve's fair daughterthou art the lady Genevra?"

Quoth he: "By thy size and knightly gear, by thythy yellow hair, methinks thou art Beltane, son of Beltane the Strong?" "Verily, 'tis so that I am called.

I thank thee Dula, would thou could'st instill Some of thy mirth into Aspatia: Nothing but sad thoughts in her breast do dwell, Methinks a mean betwixt you would do well.

"Messire," said she, "methinks art cold indeed, or is it that I weary thee?" "Nay, thou'rt wondrous easy to bear thus, lady.

O, methinks I have tarried here overlong!" "Ahand would'st be going, messire?" "'Tis so methinks my duty.

Whether we are alone, or in company, methinks our end, and such an end, should still be in our mind, and before our eyes; and we should sooner forget anything, and set light by anything, or by all things, than by this.

And when the trickling cliffs of slate The color from the sunset borrow, Methinks an eye all red with sorrow Looks down on me disconsolate.

Wenches, methink you sit like puritans: Never a jest abroad to make them laugh? FUL.

" "Truly, friend," said Sir Richard, "methinks thou meanest kindness in thine own way; nevertheless my troubles are such that it is not likely that thou canst cure them.

Thou art methinks the greatest knight that e'er couched lance" "Save thy noble father!"

But as for you, good Earl of Kent, Methinks your lordship, being of these years, Should be past dreaming of a second wife.

"King Charles himself," he said, "might smile over your story, Harry; and in faith it takes a great deal to call up a smile into his majesty's face, which is, methinks a pity, for he would be more loved, and not less respected, did he, by his appearance and manner, do something to raise the spirits of those around him.

The exquisite quality of the verse may be readily conceded, as may also the nobleness of Milton's conception and the brilliance, within certain limits, of the execution; but when we are further challenged to admire the 'moral grandeur' of the figure in which virtue is honoured, there are some at least who will feel tempted to reply in the significant words: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much!'

"Methinks thou should'st rejoice in the fortunes of the Neapolitan, and of the lady of the Tiepolo.

One, two, three.... ten, eleven, twelve, and now "methinks my soul hath elbow room.

But what of thee? Methinks the Herald's sentence named thee, too.

I. Within our heaven of love, the new-born star We long devoutly watched, like shepherd kings, Steals into light, and, floating from afar, Methinks some bright transcendent seraph sings, Waving with flashing light her radiant wings, Immortal welcome to the stranger fair: To us a child is born.

Divinely, on its own sad wings, It sings a wondrous pitiful refrain, Methinks some soul with aching grief is lain That moans and dies with broken murmurings.

MARMADUKE A ghost, methinks The Spirit of a murdered man, for instance Might have fine room to ramble about here, A grand domain to squeak and gibber in.

Not one chance look this wayand yet I can forgive her lovely Eyes, Because they look not pleas'd with all this Ceremony; And yet methinks some sympathy in Love Might this way glance their BeamsI cannot hold Sir, is this fair Lady my Aunt? Sir Feeb.

"Alas, my lady Helen," said he, "methinks thine is the harder part this day.

"Methinks the thought of thy gold weigheth more heavily with thee than the wrong to thy cloth," said the Queen, smiling, and at this a ripple of laughter went around, for everyone knew how fond the Bishop was of his money.

holy, joyous time, The boast of many an age gone by, And yet methinks unsung in rhyme, Though dear to bards of chivalry; Nor less of old to Church and State, As authors erudite relate.

When I consider the other, I see myself approached with so much Modesty and Respect, and such a Doubt of himself, as betrays methinks an Affection within, and a Belief at the same time that he himself would be the only Gainer by my Consent.