What does drawe mean?
Drawe means Obsolete spelling of draw..
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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.
These whelpes of the first lytter of gentilitie, these exhalations, drawen vp to the heauen of honour from the dunghill of abiect fortune, haue long been on horsebacke to come riding to your diuellship; but, I know not how, lyke Saint George, they are alwaies mounted but neuer moue.
Now this pestilentiall Summer being well spent, upon the approach of the Winter, and decrease of the Sicknesse, the King […] drawes nearer to the City of London,
Use drawe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drawe means Obsolete spelling of draw..
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This towne was named Vacca / Metellus drewe hym and his army thyder / and ſet garnyſon into the ſame towne.
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