Definition of "sometyme"

Sometimes it'll make a leitmotiv of a famous line like Thomas Wyatt's "They fle from me that sometyme did me seke," flashing the line again and again in different contexts.

1988 February 26, Anthony Adler, “Anything Goes, Everything Fits”, in Chicago Reader‎

The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."

2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men