Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Methinks

Methinks , impersonal verb

[Anglo-Saxon þyncan to seem, mē þyncee, mē þūhte, Old English me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to German dunken to seem, denken to think, and English think. See Me, and Think.]

It seems to me; I think. See Me. [Rare, except in poetry.]
In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. — Spenser