perpend

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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

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

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

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

Would it not, as Henley used to say, give him much to perpend?

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William