soughten

verb

1. (form-of, obsolete, past)past of seek

   “[…] that John Gallius Viscount, Duke of Millen, in Italye, soughten both farre and nere to get Englishmen and Gascones, and eke other strange nations, to serven him in his warres agaynst the emperour that there y called was Robert, […]”

2. (archaic, form-of, participle, past, poetic)past participle of seek

   “Who hath been a soldier O? Who hath soughten glory?”

   “Sweet love I all my life have soughten And bitter hatred found instead have; I've sighed, I've cursed, I've fared, I've foughten And from a thousand wounds I bled have.”