keeps
“his regiment—The Earl of Pembroke,”
RICHARD III., v. 3. 29.
“That is, remains with it. Thus we say of a person confined
by illness,—he keeps his chamber or his
bed”
(STEEVENS)
. In a note onAntony and Cleopatra, act iii. sc. 6, Mr.
Collier observes: “When, in ‘Richard III.’ [v. 3. 29], Richmond says, ‘The Earl of Pembroke
keeps his regiment,’ he means his
command generally, and not that the Earl was
the colonel of a certain number of men, now called ‘a regiment.’ The same
remark will apply to Richmond's direction [Richard III., v.
3. 103], ‘Good lords, conduct him to his regiment,’ speaking of Lord Stanley.” But compare King John, ii. 1. 295-296,
“‘Up higher to the plain; where we'll set forth
In best appointment all our regiments.”
“‘Up higher to the plain; where we'll set forth
In best appointment all our regiments.”
