galey

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Far from being encouraged to exercise a humble and abnegatory spirit on the voyage, he is to be at pains to secure a berth in the middle of the ship, and not to mind paying fifty ducats for to be in a good honest place, "to have your ease in the galey and also to be cherysshed."

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
He says: ` Hyre you a cage for halfe a dozene hennes or chekyns to have with you in the shyppe or galey.

The literary remains of the late Willis Gaylord Clark 1844
Ye kat** ke galey ko kaat dega chunaav ke baad, "is not something that you say impromptu, at a spur of a moment.

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