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simple past of go examples
(nonstandard) past participle of go quotations
When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church, page 22
I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
1851, Abel F. Fitch, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] , Advertiser and Free Press, page 145
I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter, Xlibris, page 22
(archaic) simple past and past participle of wend
plural wents
(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey. quotations
But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie