An't

For instance, the overlap in meaning between if and and is well attested in Early Modern English, especially in initial position: 'An't be not four by the day, I'll be hanged' (Henry IV Part 1), 'I'll tell you when, and you'll tell me wherefore' (Comedy of Errors).

On and after if

For instance, the overlap in meaning between if and and is well attested in Early Modern English, especially in initial position: 'An't be not four by the day, I'll be hanged' (Henry IV Part 1), 'I'll tell you when, and you'll tell me wherefore' (Comedy of Errors).

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"An't please your lordship --" said Peter Periwinkle.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers

"An't please yer worship, 'tis a wild Injun come from nowheer an 'doin' all manner o 'wickedness."

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

"An't please your lordship," answered the Seneschal, "Paul Prior hath given notice that there is a body --"

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers

'' An't one o 'you Mr. Meminger, the negro-trader from Lexington?'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

_ An't please you, we had no time for grace; but we return thanks to you, under Heaven.

Cromwell

An't please your Honour, I have been at my Lord's, and his Lordship thanks you for the Favour you have offer'd of reading your Play to him; but he has such a prodigious deal of

Henry Fielding: a Memoir

(An't please your worship) to make the deed nothing.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

"An't please you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that _I_ am troubled withal."

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891