fee quotes

His soul moves in his fee.

- Ben Jonson
  Of the lawyer. Volpone, act 4, sc.5.

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.

-William Wordsworth
  OfVenice.'On the Extinction of theVenetian Republic', l.1^4 (published1807).