perpend

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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

"Lud—a mercy," quoth I, Thomas, "I will perpend, Master Conscience" and I set myself to eschew the evil deed, with all my might.

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael

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; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

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

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William