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