drawe

verb

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of draw.

   “This towne was named Vacca / Metellus drewe hym and his army thyder / and ſet garnyſon into the ſame towne.”

   “For in his .xxxi. Psalme describeth he also this blessedfull state of man, declared now by the gospel, shewyng y it is not geuē & receiued, as due vnto vs for the workes of Moses law, but by the fre goodnes of God, wherby we are moued & drawen to beleue.”

   “And if any manner of perſon attempted to moue the King to infringe any parte of thys ordynaunce, and that being knowne, for the firſt time, he ſhould be depriued of his goodes and poſſeſſions, and for the ſecond time, to be drawen thorough the Citie, and ſo put to execution as an arrant traytor.”

   “But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe.”

   “THE MOSTE PROFITABLE AND COMmendable Science, of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes: drawen and collected by the induſtrie of Valentine Leigh. Whereunto is alſo annexed by the ſame aucthor, a right neceſſarie treatiſe, of the meaſuring of all kindes of Landes, be it Meadow, Paſture, Errable, Wood, Hill, or Dale, and that aſwell by certaine eaſie, and compendious Rules, as alſo by an exact and beneficiall Table, purpoſely drawen and deuiſed for that behalfe.”