perpend

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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

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

"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 do perpend that to earn these pieces of which you speak one must perform some worthy business.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

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