What Is a Shakespearean Word For "Good"?

We got a project in english class for MAcbeth and I have to create a lady macbeth twitter. The first line of one of my tweets is "My dear husband recieved_____oracles today! I searched the word bank all over the book but none of them are for Good. And all the translators translate my words to some obscure language with accents (not old english). Anybody know any good words to fit in that space? Thanks :)|||"fair". Fair was used to mean good, positive, beautiful or helpful.|||Excellent - worthy - agreeable - favourable - propitious - auspicious -


This is a fun project!|||An oracle was a reader of fortunes.not the ides which were the fortunes.I.e. The ides of march.|||How about 'merited'. Shakespeare used it in that sense in Measure for Measure: I doe make my selfe beleeue that you may most vprighteously do a poor wronged Lady a merited benefit.





Another option is 'deserved', or 'deserts', sometimes spelled 'desarts' or 'dyserts' in Old English. Deserts means 'that which is deserved' and is the source of our modern day saying "just deserts".





The following usages are snipped from the OED:





2. An action or quality that deserves its appropriate recompense; that in conduct or character which claims reward or deserves punishment.





c1374 CHAUCER Troylus III. 1218 (1267) If thi grace passe alle oure desertis. 1393 GOWER Conf. III. 154 He mote..Se the desertes of his men. 1549 COVERDALE Erasm. Par. 2 Cor. 51 As every mans deseartes have been..such shall his rewardes be. 1555 W. WATREMAN Fardle of Facions I. v. 56 Punisshing thoffendour vnder his desertes. 1606 HOLLAND Sueton. 42 That neither himselfe nor the olde beaten soldiers might be rewarded according to their desarts. 1782 COWPER Lett. 6 Mar., The characters of great men, which are always mysterious while they live..sooner or later receive the wages of fame or infamy according to their true deserts. 1861 MILL Utilit. v. 92 To do to each according to his deserts.





b. A good deed or quality; a worthy or meritorious action; a merit.





[c1374 CHAUCER Boeth. II. pr. vii. 56 Or doon goode decertes to profit of e comune.] 1563 Homilies II. Rogation Week I. (1859) 472 Alwaies to render him thanks..for his deserts unto us. 1657 J. SMITH Myst. Rhet. 143 It..serves for Amplification, when, after a great crime, or desert, exclaimed upon or extolled, it gives a moral note.





3. That which is deserved; a due reward or recompense, whether good or evil. Often in phr. to get, have, meet with one's deserts.





1393 LANGL. P. Pl. C. IV. 293 Mede and mercede..boe men demen A desert for som doynge. 1483 CAXTON G. de la Tour Fvij, For god gyueth to euery one the deserte of his meryte. a1533 LD. BERNERS Huon lix. 204, I shall nother ete nor drynke tyll thou hast thy dysert. 1599 Warning Faire Wom. II. 1508 Upon a pillory..that al the world may see, A just desert for such impiety. 1663 BUTLER Hud. I. ii. 40 But give to each his due desart. 1758 S. HAYWARD Serm. i. 10 This is the proper desert of Sin. 1756 BURKE Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. 1842 I. 18 Whether the greatest villain breathing shall meet his deserts. 1853 C. BRONT脣 Villette xli. (1876) 474, I think I deserved strong reproof; but when have we our deserts? 1882 OUIDA Maremma I. 41 鈥楬e has got his deserts鈥? said Joconda.