Definition of "meed"

For well ſhe wiſt,​as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,​her ſeruice,​and her vtmoſt wealth.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, stanza 6, page 6

Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin,Yet, as the meed of spotless innocence,Just Heaven permitted her by one good deedTo work her own redemption, after death.

1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […]

Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.

1829, Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress

Better to merit and the meed to miss,than, lacking merit, every meed possess.

1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões

[…] my meed hath got me fame: […]

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene viii], page 167, column 2

In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16