prythee
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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You will not go to bed with those windows open: sweetheart, prythee, shut them, and bring me hither—dost understand me?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Now quench my silver lamp, prythee, And bid the harpers harp that tune Fairies which haunt the meadowlands Sing clearly to the stars of June.
From Songs of Childhood by Anthony Hecht
Mr. Punch sings, sotto voce:— Begone, Dulcamara, I prythee begone from me!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various
I prythee, Nurse, my casement open, Wildly the garden peals with singing, And hooting through the dewy pines The goblins all are winging.
From Songs of Childhood by Anthony Hecht
Hark then, an' prythee hold by the table an' thou turn'st giddy.
From A Maid of Many Moods by Virna Sheard
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