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:
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[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 165-166:
chose en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.