" "See that thou keepest thy word.

O thou whose wound was deepest, Thou that my children keepest, Priam, Priam, O age-worn King, Gather me where thou sleepest.

" "Now," quoth Robin, "thou art a wise lad and keepest thine ears open and thy mouth shut, as becometh a wise and crafty woodsman.

hadst thou not thy play-books, and books of jests and fancies, about thee, to keep thee merry, even as thou keepest all companies with thy quips and mirthful tales?Child of the Green-room, it was unkindly done of thee.

For feast thou keepest none; cankers thou feed'st.

Fye thou keepest the sports from the marke; away, and returne.

But thou keepest shut up in his breast all the poor fellow's spirit, Finding such fault with him daily, and censuring as thou but now hast.

'I keep' I said, to the countess, 'my daughter, thou keepest thine; as to Albano, let the prince decide.'

Blest are | they thou | kindly | keepest!

[Sidenote: Neh. 9:32-37] Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and kindness, let not all the affliction seem little before thee, that hath come on us, on our kings, our nobles, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

Wherefore keepest thou here thine army, whilst thine enemy doth hide himself in a well-fortified place?

Here must thou be, O Man! Power to thyself; no Helper hast thou here; 210 Here keepest thou in singleness thy state: No other can divide with thee this work: No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability; 'tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine 215 In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else is not thine at all.

One honest man is better than two rogues; and if thou keepest thine eyes open, the devil himself stands small chance of cheating thee!'