keepen
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English kepen, equivalent to keep + -en.
Verb
[edit]keepen
- (obsolete) plural simple present of keep
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:
- [T]hey keepen all the path.
- 1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris:
- Mispeake not al, for his amisse, there bin that keepen flocks,
That never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mockes.
- 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature H2, verso:
- They keepen therefore ſilence in their Flight,
Till they haue ſcap'd that mountaine in the night.