I know not if you have heard tell the marvellous gestes and errant deeds related so often of King Arthur.

Oh, hold, hold, I'm no Christian, Gentlemen; but as errant a Heathen as your selves.

Yniol's rusted arms Were on his princely person, but thro' these Princelike his bearing shone; and errant knights And ladies came, and by and by the town Flow'd in, and settling circled all the lists.

I was yet more amazed (while the actors were dressing for the farce that concluded the entertainment) to see one of the principal among them, and as errant a petit maitre as if he had passed all his life at Paris, mount the stage, and present us with a cantata of his own performing.