Pryde now and presumpcion Peraventure wol thee appele, That Clergie thi compaignye Kepeth noght to suwe.
Ac Kynde knoweth this wel, And kepethhire the bettre, And dooth hire with sire Do-wel, Is duc of thise marches.
The calf bitokneth clennesse In hem thatkepeth lawes.
Stay here a while (ye Gentlemen) ye I say, that pursue the secrete stelths of loue, neuer put any great trust in fortune, which seldome kepethhir promise with you.
He is a Fole: and of blynde and mad opynyon For that which he getteth and kepeth wrongfully His heyre often wasteth moche more vnthryftely.
Fewe kepeth mesure, but excesse and great outrage In theyr aparayle.
Thanne is ther nothing,' quod she, 'that kepeth his nature, that enforceth him to goon ayein god?
And forsothe every thing kepeth thilke that is acordinge and propre to him, right as thinges that ben contraries and enemys corompen hem.
I telle thee wel, that she liveth looth of this lyf, and kepeth to thee only hir goost; and is al maat and overcomen by wepinge and sorwe for desyr of thee, in the whiche thing only I moot graunten that thy welefulnesse is 30 amenused.
So buillen up the foule sawes That Cheste wot of his felawes: For as a Sive kepeth Ale, Riht so can Cheste kepe a tale; Al that he wot he wol desclose, And speke er eny man oppose.
Whan she offendeth and doth a-mys, A i b And kepeth not her house, as her duetie is?
No water have we to grynde at any stynt, The wynde is so stronge the rayne cannot fall, Whyche kepethour myldams as drye as a flynt.
And whan this man the pot hath by the stele, 50 And fully is in his possessioun, With that woman he kepeth not to dele, After if he may fynden in the toun Any woman, his blinde affeccioun On to bestowe; evel mote he preve!
Who-so nat kepeth this double observaunce Of merit and honour naked is he!
A ful gret charge hath he, withouten fayle, That his worship kepeth in sikernesse; 470 But in daunger he setteth his travayle That feffeth it with others businesse.
But that, which above all other thynge kepeth the armie in unitee, is the reputacion of the Capitaine, the whiche onely groweth of his vertue: because neither bloud, nor authoritie gave it ever without vertue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kepeth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
