Definition of "keepe" []

• Obsolete spelling of keep. (verb)

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• "Whereby is declared, that such as keepe many honest seeming servants, may sometime finde a knave among them, and one that proves to be oversawcy with his master"
• "I will prouoke them to enuy (namely such as keepe not his Law) by a people, which is no people, and by a foolish nation will I anger them."
• "Around the time English players were performing Hamlet on the Continent, John Winthrop the father, sounding like a Puritan Polonius, advised his wayward son to “seeke the Lorde in the first place,” to “keepe diligent watche over your selfe,” and to “be not rashe upon ostentation of valor, to adventure your selfe to unnecessarye dangers.”"