Definition of "drave"

His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre,His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire)Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne(Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne)

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 196

I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 387