Translation
please (literally, I shall love you)
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Please come with me.
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Give me the book, please.
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Please listen to me.
is a charming please: literally I shall love you (if you do this). It sits loosely inside a command, like . Plautus' characters, above all his women, wheedle with it again and again (often as plain ), and Cicero opens a letter to Atticus with cura, amabo te, Ciceronem nostrum, please look after our Cicero (Ad Atticum 2.2).
It is only please when it softens a request. Where a poet or lover means the future of , I shall love you, it is the plain verb.
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