Vext

Verb

(archaic)
vext
(simple past of vex)

What happiness to reign a lonely king,

Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur"

And that same night, the night of the new year,

By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born ...
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur"

... and thence

Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "Holy Grail"