Note 288 — W. CAREW HAZLITT. (continued 5)
Reading edition
This word, which is variously spelt, as senet, cynet, sennet, sinet, signate, synnet, signet, &c., I believe to be no more than a corruption of sonata, Ital. See a note on “Julius Cæsar,” vol. viii. p. 9, and another on “King Henry VII.,” vol. vii. p. 236.—Steevens.