"methought" meaning in English

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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": "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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        "(archaic) simple past and past participle of methinks"
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