Mislay

I often mislay my glasses and spend time looking for them.

Did you maybe mislay it?

He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.

[F]ire, if it be well and rightly vſed, burneth in the houſe to the good and pꝛofit of the familie: but if miſlayed oꝛ abuſed, burneth the houſe to the vndoing of the inhabitantes: […]

You haue miſ-caſt in your Arithmetike, / Miſ-laid your Counters, groapingly yee ſeek / In nights blacke darknes for the ſecret things / Seal’d in the Casket of the King of Kings.

First, Scio cui credidi, I know whom I have believed in: I have not mislaid my foundation; my foundation is Christ; […]

Oh heavens! her grief miſlayes her noble reaſon, what ſhall we do

This being ſo that Defects and Weakneſs in Mens Underſtandings, as well as other Faculties, come from want of a right uſe of their own Minds, I am apt to think the fault is generally miſlaid upon Nature, and there is often a Complaint of want of Parts when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.