dolve

verb

1. (form-of, obsolete, past)simple past of delve

   “And wo worth that man, that first dolue the moulde / To fynde out the myne, of syluer and golde.”

   “And Mannaryng met, both in an Orcharde. / And Dauid the Dicar, came in wyth hys spade: / And dolue vp the Dreamer, tyl the line was made.”

   “[…]it is not fit for the Prince to digge and dolve, and yet he can doe the greater, to make and ordaine laws: so in the Church affaires, he is not to preach, because he wanteth a calling thereunto.”