"methought" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12, column 2:",
          "text": "The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches / Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd / I cri'de to dreame againe.",
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          "ref": "1673, John Milton, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint:",
          "text": "Methought I saw my late espoused saint / Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,",
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          "ref": "1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:",
          "text": "Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.",
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          "ref": "1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 145:",
          "text": "Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by angels whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.",
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          "ref": "1862 February, George Augustus [Henry] Sala, “The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous; a Narrative in Plain English, […] Chapter the Fourth. My Grandmother Dies, and I am Left Alone, without So Much as a Name.”, in George Augustus Sala, editor, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume IV, London: Office of \"Temple Bar,\" 122 Fleet Street; Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC, page 304:",
          "text": "And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, […]",
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