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Without putting ourselves to any stir or trouble in the least, quoth Pantagruel, let us maturely and seriously consider and perpend the gestures and speech which he hath made and uttered.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

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)

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

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

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

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard