(UN-1 12; cf. prec.)
1382. Wyclif, Luke xi. 8. If he schal contynue knockynge,… for his vnrestefulnesse he schal rise, and ȝyue to hym.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. xxxiii. 102. Of inordinate loue … growiþ all unrestfulnes of herte.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 234 b/2. The holy fader … axed hym, yf … he sholde praye god for hym; that he wolde releue hym from this unrestfulnesse.
c. 1557. Abp. Parker, Ps. lv. 157. I would me flitche … to wildernes: More there to dwell, than here wyth such in such unrestfulnes.
1579. E. K., Gloss, to Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., March (Emblem). Loue … vexeth the body … with vnrestfulnesse all night.
