| 1. | The bounty and the benison of heave. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | God's benison go with you and with thos. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | counsel Lo how that Jacob, as these clerkes read, By good counsel of his mother Rebecc' Bounde the kiddes skin about his neck For which his father's benison he wan. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |