Meaning of if it you please | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Archaic form of if you please (“please”).
   alt-of, archaic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see if, it, you, please.

Examples

“Good Lady then quoth I / If it you pleaſe, this labour ſpare / foꝛ once and long agoe / This leſſon learnde I perfectly, […]”

“But tell, O Ladie, tell, if it you pleaſe, / What ſodaine chaunce doth ſhade your beauties light?”

“Now when the constable and William’s father were come, and were before Mr. Brown, he asked where William Hunter was? His father answered, saying, If it you please, sir, I know not where he is. No! quoth Mr. Brown; I will make thee tell where he is, and fetch him forth also, ere I have done with thee.”

“The Emperour ſaid foꝛ his ſaik that you bought, / Withouttin feir ſhew me your minde and thought / Ye ſhall me finde to you truſt and conſtant, / Vnto your health there is nocht ye ſhall want, / Therefoꝛe ſhew fooꝛth your minde if it you pleaſe, / What ye ſhall ſay nothing ſhall me diſeaſe.”

“Good-man, quoth ſhe, if it you pleaſe, / That I muſt travel to the Pleugh, / And you to dwell at Hame at Eaſe, / Perhaps you may get Toil enough.”

“You can vote if it you please, and if there is any Democrat within hearing who expects to die before another election, we are willing that he should vote one Republican ticket, simply as a consolation upon his death-bed.”

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