"give ear" meaning in English

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      "form": "gave ear",
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    {
      "form": "given ear",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
          "text": "Give ear to his motions: Master Slender, I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, lines 5–6:",
          "text": "Leaves and rain and the days of the year,\n(Water-willow and wellaway,)\nAll these fall, and my soul gives ear",
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        "To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
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        "(idiomatic, archaic, intransitive) To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "lend an ear"
        }
      ],
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    {
      "form": "gave ear",
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      "form": "given ear",
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          "ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, lines 5–6:",
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        "(idiomatic, archaic, intransitive) To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event."
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