perpend

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Now, consider for a while, and perpend, mes enfants.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

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

Wherefore, most selected friend, perpend at thy leisure, and so God speed thee!

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina

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

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

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William