1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BENE [adj]
good, Pike on the Bene, i.e. Run away as fast as you can.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Bene in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).