perpend

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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

So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

“Let the reader therefore perpend how great and what manner of man this same blessed personage was, who, having so great prophetic knowledge, could command, by invoking the name of Christ, the winds and ocean.”

From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles

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

Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is     of a baser birth than tar- the very uncleanly flux of a cat.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William