Definition of "idlesse"

All which my daies I haue not lewdly spent,Nor spilt the blossome of my tender yearesIn ydlesse.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 378

A maiden was seated apart from her companion, the very flowers scattered neglected by her side; but it was obvious that idlesse—that first sweet symptom of love—was pleasanter than her graceful task; for the colour was rich upon her cheek, and the smile parted her scarce conscious lips.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 143

Next a lover, with a dream / ’Neath his waking eyelids hidden; / And a frequent sigh unbidden' / And an idlesse all the day / Beside a wandering stream;

1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Earth and her Praisers” in The Seraphim, and Other Poems, London: Saunders & Otley, p. 242