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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 Peter Anthony Motteux
Wherefore, most selected friend, perpend at thy leisure, and so God speed thee!
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
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 Thomas Hughes
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 Rafael Sabatini
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 John Glover
