perpend

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Now, consider for a while, and perpend, mes enfants.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

I pray, perpend, my dearest dear; While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking, How insubstantial was their cheer— It was of yours that I was thinking!

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

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

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

Wherefore, reader, perpend the first "batch," and patiently await a second and a better.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

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