if it you please

if it you please

1. Archaic form of if you please (“please”).
   • 1565 April 28 (Gregorian calendar), Marcellus Pallingenius stellatus, translated by Barnabæ Googe, “Virgo the Sixt Booke”, in The Zodiake of Life […], London: […] Henry Denham, for Rafe Newberye […], →OCLC, signature Q.iiij., recto:

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

   • [1566], T[homas] N[uce], transl., The Ninth Tragedie of Lucius Anneus Seneca Called Octauia. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, act IV, scene i, signature F.iij., recto:

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

     Not in fact by Seneca.

   • [1839], “A Notable History of William Hunter, […]”, in Adam Clarke, editor, Christian Martyrology. […], London; Paris; New York, N.Y.: Fisher, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 390, column 2:

     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.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see if,‎ it,‎ you,‎ please.
   • 1578, Iohn Roland, transl., The Seuen Sages, Translated Out of Prose into Scottish Meter […], Edinburgh: […] Andro Hart, published 1620, →OCLC, signature Z2, verso:

     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.

   • [1770?], The Goodman of Auchtermuchty; or, The Wife Turned Good-man. […], →OCLC, page [1]:

     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.

   • 1876 September 21, Robert G[reen] Ingersoll, “Speech at Indianapolis, Ind., September 21, 1876”, in Complete Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll […], Chicago, Ill.: Regan Publishing Corporation […], published [1926], →OCLC, page 232, column 1:

     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.