The word 'methinks' is a correct and usable archaic form of the word "think" in English, specifically used for expressing an opinion that one has formed without evidence or hesitation
Example sentence: Methinks he is the one who caused this mess.
TODAY'S recommended economics writing: Euro zone economy to shrink again in 2013 (Reuters) Cleaning up (Analects) The current state of the macro policy debate (Brad DeLong) Methinks they do protest to much (Irish Economy) Jobs to fill, employers wait for perfection (New York Times) Don't kill they old, pander to them (Alphaville).
By William ZarankaWhenas in jeans my Julia crams Her vasty hips and mammoth hams, And zips-up all her diaphragms, Then, then, methinks, how quaintly shows (Vermillion-painted as the rose) The laquefaction of her toes.Answer: Robert Herrick.
Gertrude fails to see, or ignores, the mirror of her own unfaithfulness held up to her by the player queen: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks".
"He who can digest a second or third fluxion," wrote Berkeley, "need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity".
CAROLE BLAKE Agent Co-head of the literary agency Blake Friedman, Blake offers author retweets, gossip and encouragement, but is not above using the medium to get things off her chest (eg: "photo of Karl Lagerfeld's library: so untidy: not the library of a booklover methinks" – 11 January).
Oh yeah and you use song lyrics without proper attribution rather bad form methinks.
SONNET NO. 157 When to the sessions of sweet silent bong I summon up remembrance of doobs past, Methinks I trounce his worship Tommy Chong, For my weed game shall not soon be outclassed.
Methinks I ken the visage of the king, All bloodied o'er, and with his skull smashed in.
Its open secret is a wedding of Eros and artifice such as was achieved by a literary contemporary of Velázquez, Robert Herrick, in "Upon Julia's Clothes": Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!
"Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow".
"Nothing methinks is marvellous and hairy like a face or tender ass".
