Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Fine, subst. 1) end, conclusion: “the f. is, I will live a bachelor,” Ado I, 1, 247. “the f. is the crown,” Alls IV, 4, 35. “is this the f. of his --s,” Hml. V, 1, 115. in f. == finally, in the end: Alls III, 7, 19. Alls III, 7, 19 IV, 3, 62. V, 3, 215. H6A I, 4, 34. Hml. II, 2, 69. IV, 7, 134. V, 2, 15. Lr. II, 1, 50.
2) pecuniary punishment, mulct: Merch. IV, 1, 372. Merch. IV, 1, 372 H6A I, 3, 64. H8 V, 4, 84. Cor. III, 3, 15. Rom. III, 1, 195. (== a sum of money, by way of quibbling, in Err. II, 2, 76). Sometimes == punishment in general: “the faults whose f. stands in record,” Meas. II, 2, 40. “paying the f. of rated treachery even with a treacherous f. of all your lives,” John V, 4, 37. John V, 4, 37 “what faults he made before the last, I think mighthave found easy --s,” Cor. V, 6, 65. In Rom. I, 5, 96 O. Edd. sin, M. Edd., quite unnecessarily, fine.
3) a sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another: “a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his --s, his double vouchers, his recoveries,” Hml. V, 1, 114. Hml. V, 1, 114 with f. and recovery, a term of law denoting absolute ownership: “if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with f. and recovery,” Wiv. IV, 2, 225. Somewhat loosely used in Err. II, 2, 75: there's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature. May he not do it by f. and recovery? Yes, to pay a f. for a periwig and recover the lost hair of another man (Perhaps by f. and recovery == by finery and re-covery, i. e. by making himself fine and re-covering his head with another man's hair).