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Definition:to take notice; to heedit still survives as "mark my words"
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Uses:
“take heed my Philautus, that thou thyself swallow not a gudgeon”, which word Philautus did not mark, until he had almost digested it.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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SUB. Yes, the casa,
My precious Diego, will prove fair enough
To cozen you in. Do you mark? you shall
Be cozen'd, Diego.
FACE. Cozen'd, do you see,
My worthy Donzel, cozen'd.
SUR. Entiendo.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Ber. Looks it not like the King? Mark it, Horatio.[...]
Ham. Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak! I'll go no further.
Ghost. Mark me.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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—It was the speech, mark you, the professor said, of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction I will not say the vials of his wrath but pouring the proud man’s contumely upon the new movement.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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‘That’s not all,’ said the man, eagerly. ‘That’s not all. Mark that. I didn’t forget that old sore, trust me.
Charles Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
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