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reflexive case of I
(reflexive) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. quotations examples
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. examples
In my normal state of body or mind. examples
Me (as the object of a verb or preposition). examples
(archaic) I (as the subject of a verb). quotations
And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land […].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.
1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged
(India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...