crept'st

See also: creptst

English

Alternative forms

• creptst

Verb

crept'st

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of creep
   • 1687 [1656], [Robert Fletcher], “[Additions.] Obsequies To the Memory of the truly Noble, right Valiant, and right Honourable, Spencer Earl of Northampton, slain at Hopton Field in Staffordshire, in the Beginning of the Civil War.”, in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, Containing His Poems, Orations, Epistles, Collected into One Volume, with the Life of the Author, London: […] R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], page 234:

     When thou ſtol’ſt crept’ſt under / That Helmet which durſt dare Iove and his Thunder.

     D[aniel] H[olt] Woodward (1970) “Commentary”, in The Poems and Translations of Robert Fletcher, Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, →ISBN, page 272: “Stolest creptst may represent unresolved alternatives in the author’s manuscript, and durst dare is redundant.”

   • [1754, [James Fortescue], “Preface”, in Pomery-Hill. A Poem. Humbly Addressed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. With Other Poems, English and Latin., London: […] A. Millar, […], page v:

     I would be more hoſpitable to the pretty, too much ſtrangers; and think it a pity, that, for the ſake of energy, we muſt ſometimes huddle all the jarring conſonants of two ſyllables into one; ſay—thou crept’ſt, thou brought’ſt, thou crown’ſt, he dragg’d, he drudg’d—and other like inſtances of Britiſh roughneſs.]

   • 1870 January 8, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “To William Michael Rossetti”, in Cecil Y. Lang, editor, The Swinburne Letters, volumes 2 (1869–1875), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, published 1959, →LCCN, page 81:

     Thou, like a worm from the town’s common tomb, / Thou crept’st / Didst creep from forth the kennel of her womb, […]

   • 1891, J. W. Crombie, “The Folk-Poetry of Spain”, in Some Poets of the People in Foreign Lands, 2nd edition, London: Elliot Stock, […], page 5:

     By my senses’ windows five / Thou crept’st in one day; […]

   • 1900, William Vaughn Moody, The Masque of Judgment: A Masque-Drama in Five Acts and a Prelude, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, page 42:

     Wearily thou crept’st back / Sore from the track; […]

   • 1923 March 2, Louis Lee, “In Memoriam: Margaret Van Ness”, in The Keyport Weekly, volume LIV, number 9, Keyport, N.J., page [5], column 2:

     When came thy time to fly into each heart / Thou crept’ſt, beguiling care with joyous play; […]