Definition of "chose"

From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,

1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 10, lines 165-166

I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do.

1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs‎, Houghton Mifflin, page 66

Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city.

2010, Andrew Noble Koss, World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna‎, Stanford University Press, page x