misdeem

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Tho’ something like moisture conglobes in my eye, Let no one misdeem me disloyal; A poor friendless wand’rer may well claim a sigh, Still more, if that wand’rer were royal.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Can they so much, from thoughts of danger free, Deceive themselves, so much misdeem of me, To think that I will prove a statesman's tool, And live a stranger where I ought to rule?

From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles

But let not pride and prejudice misdeem, And think that empty titles are my theme; Titles, with me, are vain, and nothing worth; I reverence virtue, but I laugh at birth.

From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles

Others rub hard large masses, and essay To polish into white what they misdeem The growing green of many trackless years.

From Gebir by Landor, Walter Savage

Also at such times is the rich man become fearful, and so waxeth in cruelty, and of that cruelty do people misdeem that it is power and might waxing.

From A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson by Morris, William