perpend

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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)

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

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

“Let the reader therefore perpend how great and what manner of man this same blessed personage was, who, having so great prophetic knowledge, could command, by invoking the name of Christ, the winds and ocean.”

From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles

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

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard