perst

I'm too scared to come up with a better comment or a WV for "perst".

Coulrophobia Cakes Jen 2009

_Her beautie perst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart;

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Where ye see this one word [_perst_] placed in the foreward, satisfieth both in sence & congruitie all those other clauses that followe him.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Where ye see this one word [perst] placed in the foreward, satisfieth both in sence & congruitie all those other clauses that followe him.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

Her beautie perst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart:

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

4 That with their force they perst both plate and maile,

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

2.4.3: Haue perst my hart, and done it none offence,

"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557