[Y- 4, KEEP, I-KEPE vbs.], kept.
13[?]. Seuyn Sag., 460. To the ich have i-kept mi maidenhod.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 2125. Þis ys þat tresour … Which þat my fader … haueþ y-kept hit in-to þis day.
1399. Pol. Poems (Rolls), I. 365. Roton corne, So long ykep, hit is forlorne.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secr. Secr., lxix. 246. Als longe as the natural hette duryth … the helth of man shal be y-keppit.
1593. [see KEEP v. 14].
