drawen alengthe
- (idiomatic) To prolong (especially a life)
- 13th c., Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, Book II, ln. 7389-91
As he þat drowe toward his endynge,
And myȝt nat lenger drawe alengþe
His woful lif, so weyk was of strengþe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde. Book II, 260-3.
'And sithe th'ende is every tales strengthe,
And this matere is so bihovely,
What shoulde I peynte or drawen it on lengthe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
