1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 184. For one kinde thereof [sc. consent] is firme and stedfast, and another weake and vnstayed.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VI. i. 20. He … layd On hideous strokes … That oft he made him stagger as vnstayd.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 55. Some young Phaeton, Whose skilless and unstayed Hand May prove the Ruin of the Land.
1881. Chr. Rossetti, Pageant, etc., Late Life, iii. Bear Thou in mind … our feebleness unstayed Except Thou stay us.
