Welfare, 1) wellbeing, good health; “until her husband's w. she did hear,” Lucr. 263. “and sick of w., found a kind of meetness to be diseased,” Sonn. 118, 7. “we have been praying for our husbands' w.” Merch. V, 114 (Q1 healths).
2) prosperity, happiness: H6B III, 1, 80. H6C IV, 3, 39. Tit. V, 3, 110.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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