perpend
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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)
No doubt, Tom Jones often turns out badly, but Master Blifil always does,—a fact which Mr. Abbott would do well to note and perpend.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
If he meets with only conscripts and militia he may penetrate as far as Harrisburg, and then let Europe perpend!
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
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
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
