doughty

DUKE. When, to evade Destruction's hand,
To hide they all proceeded,
No soldier in that gallant band
Hid half as well as he did.
He lay concealed throughout the war,
And so preserved his gore, O!
That unaffected,
Undetected,
Well-connected
Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

ALL. In every doughty deed, ha, ha!
He always took the lead, ha, ha!
That unaffected,
Undetected,
Well-connected
Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

-W.S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers

A hundred heralds she sent out
To summon in her sight all doughty men
from "The Queen's Complaint," Sylvia Plath

I always want it to rhyme with sought. No reason.

"By heaven, Theodore Purefoy, thou hast done a doughty deed and no botch!"
Joyce, Ulysses, 14

doughty in the sense of brave holding together