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When so euer any mannes father ther, dieth: all his kinsfolke bringe euery man one beast or other to the house of the sonne that kepeth the funeral.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

And he that kepeth it clanly a yere, aftre that yere, hyt turneth yn to flesche and bloode.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And he that kepeth it clanly a yere, aftre that yere, hyt turneth yn to flesche and bloode.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Some makers write in verses of foureteene sillables giuing the _Cesure_ at the first eight, which proportion is tedious, for the length of the verse kepeth the eare too long from his delight, which is to heare the cadence or the tuneable accent in the ende of the verse.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Alas, sweete heart, thinke that God doth chastise vs with his roddes of tribulation, to make vs to know him: but in the meane time, he kepeth for vs a better fortune that wee looke not for.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Ac [34] dedly synne doth he noght, · for Do-wel hym kepeth;

English Satires Various 1885

When so euer any mannes father ther, dieth: all his kinsfolke bringe euery man one beast or other to the house of the sonne that kepeth the funeral.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584

And he that kepeth it clanly a yere, aftre that yere, hyt turneth yn to flesche and bloode.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

+ See what a sort she kepeth that must be my wife.

Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530

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.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498