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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxiij And marke, thy cosen Elizabeth, hath also conceaved a sonne in her olde age.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 310 O vpright Iudge, Marke Iew, ô learned Iudge. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vii. 3 Tis as arrant a piece of knauery marke you now, as can bee offert. View more context for this quotation

1678 J. Leanerd Rambling Justice iv. 40 Geoff. She is all abomination, and musick is the wind-pipe of Lucifer. Twif. But mark you Cousin, mine is no wind musick.

1700 J. Fletcher & J. Vanbrugh Pilgrim (rev. ed.) iv. 32 Pendragon was a Shentleman, mark you, Sir?

1738 W. Meston Decadem Alteram 52 The noisy Torrent..Cuts out new Chanels with its swelling Flood, But mark, you'll find the noisy Thing decay, Sink low right soon.

1822 J. R. Planché Maid Marian i. iii. 7 Friar Pet. She can fence, and draw the long bow, and play at single stick, and quarter staff. Friar Mich. Yet, mark you, not like a virago, or a hoyden.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. ix. 137 ‘Impudence,’ shortly answered Yorke. ‘Mark you, Miss Channing! I have not done with you.’

1867 A. J. Evans St. Elmo xvii. 232 It remains to be seen whether a grand success is not destined to crown it. Mark you! The grapple is not quite over.

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman i. 23 For mark you, Tavy, the artist's work is to shew us ourselves as we really are.

1914 W. Owen Let. 24 May (1967) 255 Mark, I do not for a moment call myself a musician.

a1953 E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) iii. 94 Provided, mark you, that you and your daughter sign an agreement I have drawn up.

1984 K. Waterhouse Thinks xv. 140 There is, mark you, no guarantee that it is indeed Ruth he plans on setting out to meet.