prithee

alternative prythee

1. archaicplease; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.

   What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.

   1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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   But tell me, stranger, I prithee say, does my old master's heir Still breathe this vital air?

   1781, Horace Walpole, The Mysterious Mother, Act 1 Scene 2