wandreth

Thus, quandary, despite a fanciful etymology which would identify it with wandreth (= evil), is probably simply a composition form of the French phrase, qu’en dirai-je?

Chapter 11. American Slang. 1. Its Origin and Nature Henry Louis 1921

Loke pi hert fra hym noght twyn, if pou in wandreth ware,

Love is Life 1917

"The man that wandreth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the Giants," and Job 26.5.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

BEfore we present you the matters of fact, it is fit to offer to your view the Stage whereon they were acted, for as Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion, so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England 1624

I haue by my vigilant meditacion found and noted many degrees of errours: wherby mankynd wandreth from the way of trouth I haue also noted that many wyse men and wel lettred haue writen right fruteful doctrines: wherby they haue heled these dyseses and intollerable perturbacions of the mynde: and the goostly woundes therof, moche better than Esculapius which was fyrst

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

[Illustration: He is a Fole that wandreth by nyght

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489