perpend

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Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is     of a baser birth than tar- the very uncleanly flux of a cat.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William

Will you keep me in the rain till daylight whilst you perpend how late I ride?

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

To this, great chief, thy reason bend, And earnestly the truth perpend.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to read     thus; therefore perpend, my Princess, and give ear.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor, Both young and old, one with another, Ford; He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge