restlesse

• “In this too restlesse turmoile of vnrest, The poore _Reuenges_”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “For the bringing of which into this homely and rough-hewen shape, which here thou seest; what restlesse nights, what painefull dayes, what heat, what cold I haue indured; how many long & chargeable iourneys I haue trauailed; how many famous libraries I haue searched into; what varietie of ancient and moderne writers I haue perused; what a number of old records, patents, priuleges, letters, &c.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And now his restlesse spirit would fore-warne me 15”

  Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

• “So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death.”

  Leviathan

• “My restlesse nights may show for me, how much I loue,”

  Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania

• “And therein stirre such rage and restlesse stowre,”

  Fowre Hymnes

• “Ne wilbe moou'd with reason or with rewth, to graunt small respit to my restlesse toile: but greedily her fell intent poursewth,”

  Amoretti and Epithalamion

• “Thus faire Psyches being sweetly couched among the soft and tender hearbs, as in a bed of sweet and fragrant floures, and having qualified the thoughts and troubles of her restlesse minde, was now well reposed.”

  The Golden Asse

• “Descripcion of the restlesse state of a louer, with sute to his ladie, to rue on his diyng hart.”

  "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"

• “Gentle reader, thou shalt not read of a fable, but rather a tragedy: This woman when her love began first to kindle in her heart, could easily resist her desire and inordinate appetite by reason of shame and feare, lest her intent should be knowne: But after it compassed and burned every part of her brest, she was compelled to yeeld unto the raging flame of Cupid, and under colour of the disease and infirmity of her body, to conceale the wound of her restlesse mind.”

  The Golden Asse

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