A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

Of my revenge, first sought for, thou returnest

From flight, seditious Angel, to receive

Thy merited reward.

Milton, Paradise Lost, vi. 150.

See. Not always confined as now to the seat or residence of a bishop; nor indeed did it necessarily involve the notion of a seat of authority at all.

At Babiloyne was his sovereyn see.

Chaucer, The Monkes Tale.

And smale harpers with her gleës

Saten under hem in seës.

Id., The Hous of Fame, b. iii. (Skeat, p. 156).