Hamlet vocabulary

40 archaic vocabulary words

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prithee

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Definition:
please

short for "pray thee"

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CRABTREE. Nay egad it's true—I back him at a Rebus or a Charade against the best Rhymer in the Kingdom—has your Ladyship heard the Epigram he wrote last week on Lady Frizzle's Feather catching Fire—Do Benjamin repeat it—or the Charade you made last Night extempore at Mrs. Drowzie's conversazione—Come now your first is the Name of a Fish, your second a great naval commander—and
SIR BENJAMIN. Dear Uncle—now—prithee——

R.B. Sheridan. The School for Scandal
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Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
Hamlet: I prithee do not mock me, fellow student.
  I think it was to see my mother's wedding.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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