15 examples of kepe in sentences

But let such people be answeared after this manner, that is to say, that their affection cannot so chaunge the nature of the thing, that it doth not alwaies kepe and hold fast, his proper or owne name.

First the occasions which thrust them forwarde to do it, was such a great ioy which they had conceaued of the fauoure which God had shewed to them, that they coulde not conceale, or kepe hidden, but needes must manifest it, & let it abroad, by all the meanes and wayes that they could inuent or deuise.

Good men, fay, take of my words kepe!

Piers Plowman gives valuable pictures of the life of the common people and shows them working "To kepe kyne

And therfore Kyng Alysandre leet make there a strong cytee, that men clepen Alizandre, for to kepe the contree, that no man scholde passe with outen his leve.

And for to kepen every cros, ben ordeyned 10000 men at Armes, and mo than 100000 men on Fote, in maner as men wolde kepe a Stondard in oure Contrees, whan that wee ben in lond of werre.

Wee have ben in perpetuelle pees tille now, that thou come to disherite us; and also wee have a kyng, nought for to do justice to every man, for he schalle fynde no forfete amonge us; but for to kepe noblesse, and for to schewe that wee ben obeyssant, wee have a kyng.

And that cuppe the sone schalle kepe to drynken of, alle his lif tyme, in remembrance of his fadir.

Also of the inner court he writes of '4 Toures, wherof the Kepe is one.'

The milk of seven streakit cows It was her cost to kepe, They brought her dayly, whyche she drank Before she wente to slepe.

17 The kyng ought to kepe hym in the bande Reg. 20 Of the lawe of God the same readynge Prov.

Wel coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe, Thatte

Item, paide for a doore in the rode lofte to save and kepe the people from the Orgayns xijd.

For examples of bribery see Wing Acc'ts, s.a. 1561, Archaeologia, xxxvi ("to ye S[um]m[o]ner to kepe us ffrom Lincoln for slacknes of o[u]r auters").

Of them it is also determined that they "do kepe an alle for the comodetie of the [Transcriber's note: WORD ILLEGIBLE] dytts in the sayd Towne to be kept abowts the tyme of Shrofftyde," [Transcriber's note: WORD(S) ILLEGIBLE] just before Lent.

15 examples of  kepe  in sentences