37. 'It seemeth to me it is reasonable.'

_Me thinketh_ = _me thinks_, where _me_ is the dative before the impersonal

vb. _thinken_, to appear, seem; cp. _me liketh_, _me list_, it pleases me.

So the phrase _if you please_ = if it _please you_, you being the _dative_

and not the nominative case. _semed me_ = it seemed to me, occurs in l. 39.

The personal verb is properly _thenken_, as in the Clerkes Tale, E. 116,

641; or _thenchen_, as in A. 3253.

_accordaunt_, accordant, suitable, agreeable (to).

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