clypt

clypt

1. simple past and past participle of clip; obsolete spelling of clipped
   • 1546–62, John Heywood, Of rebellion, in The Poverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (1867), page 201:

     Hast thou any clypt syluer? [...] Hast thou any crekt grote?

   • 1595–1662, Henry Lawes, A Dream:

     I laid me down upon a pillow soft,

     And dream'd I clypt and kissed my mistress oft:

     She cried, Fie fie, away, you are too bold.

     I pray'd her be content, though she were cold;

     My veins did burn with flames of hot desire,

     And must not leave till she had quench'd my fire.

   • 1886–1918, Joyce Kilmer, Ballade of my Lady's Beauty:

     Squire Adam had two wives, they say,

     Two wives had he, for his delight,

     He kissed and clypt them all the day

     And clypt and kissed them all the night.