P. 287. ver. 17. For thee I gotten or bie wiles or breme.
H. 1. 252. He turned aboute and vilely souten flie.
H. 2. 339. Fallyng he shooken out his smokyng braine.
H. 2. 334. His sprite—Ne shoulden find a place in anie songe.
Æ. 172. So Adam thoughtenne when ynn paradyse——
1136. Tys now fulle morne; I thoughten, bie laste nyghte—
Ch. 54. Full well it shewn, he thoughten coste no sinne.
See also H. 2. 366. where thoughten, with the additional syllable, not being quite long enough for the verse, has had another syllable added at the beginning.
Ne onne abash'd enthoughten for to flee.
And (what is still more curious) we have a participle of the present tense formed from this fictitious past time, in Æ. 704.