drawn having one's sword drawn:
“Why are you drawn?”
THE TEMPEST, ii. 1. 299
;
“if he be not drawn,”
HENRY V., ii. 1. 35
;
“art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?”
ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 1. 64
(whether
“who having drawn to do't,”
PERICLES, v. 1. 172
, means “who having drawn his sword to do it,” or “whom she having persuaded to do it,” has been disputed. I think, the former).
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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