keep vb. (3 freq. in literary use c. 1580-1630)
1.
refl. to restrain oneself Gent. IV. iv. 12.
2.
to carry on, continue
to make
Err. III. i. 61
“Who is that at the door
that keeps all this noise?,”
Tw.N. II. iii. 79
“What a caterwauling do
you keep here!.”
3.
to dwell, live, lodge
Mer.V. III. iii. 19
“the most impenetrable
cur That ever kept with men,”
Troil. IV. v. 277
“In what place of the
field doth Calchas ?,”
Ham. II. i. 8
“what Danskers are in
Paris . . . where they ”
