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
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
Wherefore, most selected friend, perpend at thy leisure, and so God speed thee!
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
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
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
