A common misquotation places "methinks" first, as in "methinks the lady doth protest too much". Later versions contain the simpler line, "The lady protests too much, methinks". One example is the word "methinks", with the meaning "it seems to me". The poor fountain has had, methinks, rather scurvy treatment at the hands of its biographers. This edging of ice revealed is peculiarly green by contrast with the snow methinks. Methinks he is the finest living Australian poet.