Definition of "bale"

That other ſwayne, like aſhes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, page 441

Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell, / The one ſide muſt haue baile.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], page 2, column 2

Ffor if you wold comfort me with a kisse, / Then were I brought ffrom bale to blisse, / Noe longer here wold I lye.

1885, “Sir Cawline”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish popular ballads‎, volume 2

So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.

1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563