"To owe" is frequently used by Shakspeare in the sense of to possess, to own, as in Act i. Sc. 5. where Lucio says:

"But when they weep and kneel,

All their petitions are as freely theirs

As they themselves would owe them."

So also in the following instances:—

"The slaughter of the prince that ow'd that crown."

Richard III., Act. iv. Sc. 4.

"What art thou, that keepst me out from the house I

owe?"

Comedy of Errors, Act iii. Sc. 1.