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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

"Lud—a mercy," quoth I, Thomas, "I will perpend, Master Conscience" and I set myself to eschew the evil deed, with all my might.

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael

I said, as soon as I have supt, I shall perpend if your proposal may Be such as I can properly accept; Provided always your great goodness still Remits the matter to our own free-will.'

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Therefore, to begin his work the better, he requested a learned physician of that time, called Master Theodorus, seriously to perpend, if it were possible, how to bring Gargantua into a better course.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Read it, thou self-satisfied Mammon, and perpend; for it is both a prophecy and a doom!

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas