Green’s Dictionary of Slang

ben-bowsy adj.

drunk.

1621		Jonson Gypsies Metamorphosed (1931) 189: You must be ben-bowsy / and sleepie and drowsie.
1654		Witts Recreations ‘Fancies and Fantasticks’ No. 126: You must be Ben-bousie, / And sleepy and drowsie, / And lasie and lowsie, [...] And then you may stalk / The Gipsies walk.