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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 2003
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In this too restlesse turmoile of vnrest, The poore _Reuenges_
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And now his restlesse spirit would fore-warne me 15
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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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 Lucius Apuleius
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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 Thomas Hobbes 1633
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My restlesse nights may show for me, how much I loue,
Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 1621
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And therein stirre such rage and restlesse stowre,
Fowre Hymnes 1596
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Ne wilbe moou'd with reason or with rewth, to graunt small respit to my restlesse toile: but greedily her fell intent poursewth,
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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 — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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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 1566
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