keepen

keepen

English

Etymology

From Middle English kepen, equivalent to keep +‎ -en.

Verb

keepen

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of keep
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

     They 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, Nathaniel Baxter, Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophie

     They keepen therefore silence in their Flight,

     Till they have scap'd that mountaine in the night.