Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

fee-simple “with fine and recovery—In,” THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. 2. 187 ( “Fee-simple, feodum simplex, is that of which we are seised in these general words, To us and our heirs for ever,” Cowell's Law-Dict., sub “Fee,” ed. 1727 ; fine and recovery is “the strongest assurance known to English law,” RITSON) ; “fee-simple,” ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 3. 259 ;2 HENRY VI., iv. 10. 25 ; TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, v. 1. 21; ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 1. 31; “And was my own fee-simple” A LOVER'S COMPLAINT, 144. ( “Had an absolute power over myself, as large as a tenant in fee has over his estate,” MALONE)