Again, alms, aloes, bellows, means, news, odds, shambles, and species, are proper plurals, but most of them are oftener construed as singulars.

Alms is a great sikerness [surety] tofore the high God unto all them that do it.

I hold, Sir, that every alms is a fresh badge of slavery.

The very Alms they receive from us, are the Wages of Idleness.

As you are kind unto us and our Bush, We are the Beggars and your daily Beadsmen, And have your mony, but the Alms we ask And live by, is your Grace, give that, and then We'l boldly say our word is, Come again.