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What strange tidings are these from Lincolnshire?" "The house of your purveyor, Sir Robert de Burgh, is burned, his lands wasted. The rebels are headed by lords and knights. Robin of Redesdale, who, methinks, bears a charmed life, has even ventured to rouse the disaffected in my brother's very shire of Warwick."
"And yet, if that counsel prevail, I may lose the power to soften the Church and to call her mine." "So thou wouldest sacrifice even Edith for thy country." "Since I have sinned, methinks I could," said the proud man humbly. The boat shot into a little creek, or rather canal, which then ran inland, beside the black and rotting walls of the fort.
Meantime Thorkel's ship had drawn close alongside, and its captain hailed Estein. "There is little time for talking now, son of Hakon!" he shouted. "What think you we should do? run into the islands, or go to Odin where we are? These men, methinks, will show us little mercy." "I seek mercy from no man," answered Estein. "We will bide where we are.
Grettir asked him of his name, and he said he was hight Hallmund. "And this I will tell thee to know me by, that thou didst deem me to have a good hold of the reins that summer when we met on the Keel; now, methinks, I have paid thee back therefor." "Yea, in sooth," said Grettir, "I deem that thou hast shown great manliness toward me; whenso I may, I will reward thee."
A head was now thrust from the lattice, the light vanished; a minute more, the door opened; and Robin, as if satisfied, drew hastily back, and vanished, saying to himself, as he strode along, "A young man's life must needs be dear to him; yet had the lad been a lord, methinks I should have cared little to have saved for the people one tyrant more."
Blow on! blow on! and let the bubbles rise, If but this heart remain! And if a German laurel as the prize Of song, 'tis given me to gain! The name of Wirtemberg they hold To come from Wirth am berg , I'm told. A Wirtemberger who ne'er drinks No Wirtemberger is, methinks! HUSBAND. The boy's my very image! See! Even the scars my small-pox left me!
One word more for I like to go to the bottom of a subject, when I can do so in two minutes: virtue is desirable because it makes us happy; consequently, to make ourselves happy is to be truly virtuous. Methinks this is sound logic. To tell you the truth, my dear Olivia, I do not well conceive how you have contrived to fall in love with this half-frozen Englishman.
Hence hath he either wisdom enough to bear himself discreetly in the presence of princes; or else, having no reason bestowed on him, he is not responsible for his own actions." "Methinks our monks have adopted chiefly the latter character," said Richard. "But to the matter. In what can I pleasure you, my learned physician?"
Methinks the King and his best counsellors know this well, and content themselves with their glorious feats of arms which stir the blood and gratify the pride of all loyal subjects. "But now, I pray thee, tell me of thyself; for thou hast sadly altered since we parted last.
Methinks I see the man hesitating, and looking like the fool you paint him, under your corrective superiority! But he is not a fool. Don't put him upon mingling resentment with his love. You are very serious, my dear, in the first of the two letters before me, in relation to Mr. Hickman and me; and in relation to my mother and me. But as to the latter, you must not be too grave.
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