Benevolence, a tax, nominally a gratuity: “blanks, --s,” R2 II, 1, 250.*-- Evans uses the word in a rather vague sense: “to do my b. to make atonements,” Wiv. I, 1, 33, i. e. to do a good and pious work.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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