rest (n.)
[period of] peace, calm, repose
AC I.iii.53[Antony to Cleopatra] quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge / By any desperate change [i.e. become ill after, or because of, a long rest]
KJ IV.ii.55[Pembroke to King John] If what in rest you have in right you hold [i.e. if you hold by right what you possess in peace]
KL I.i.123[Lear to Kent, of Cordelia] I ... thought to set my rest / On her kind nursery [also, in gambling: remainder]
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