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.