- he go
about to
expound this dream.
Methought I was—there is no man can tell what.
Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a
patched fool...
-
Sonnet XXIII:
Methought I saw my late
espoused saint Methought I saw my late
espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great...
- in my
heart there was a kind of
fighting That
would not let me sleep.
Methought I lay
Worse than the
mutines in the bilboes. Rashly— And prais'd be rashness...
- that noise, Ruin,
destruction at the
utmost point. Man. Of ruin
indeed methought I
heard the noise. Oh it continues, they have
slain my son. Chor. Thy...
- drawn, and were
purely for show:
Looking on the
lines Of my boy's face,
methought I did
recoil Twenty-three years, and saw
myself unbreech'd In my green...
- Hitch****) and the 1697
Paisley witch trials. Its
title comes from Macbeth:
Methought I
heard a
voice cry 'Sleep no more.
Macbeth does
murder sleep' — Act II...
- / That
weren trewe in
lovyng al hire lyves." Milton's
famous sonnet, "
Methought I Saw My Late
Espoused Saint", c. 1650,
alludes to the myth, with the...
- lamp-light
gloating o'er, She
shall press, ah, nevermore! Then,
methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed from an
unseen censer Swung by seraphim...
- and the two
reunite after Titania pronounces "what
visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamour'd of an ****." At the play's conclusion,
Titania and Oberon...
-
intimacy with the
inside of the
cosmos that I have
found unequaled. So
methought God
would have
spoken had he been
inarticulate but
keenly desirous to...
