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For the same bookseller he also printed a poem, _The seuin Seages, Translatit out of prois in Scottis meter be Johne Rolland in Dalkeith_, a quarto, now so rare that only one copy is now known, that in the Britwell Library.
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901
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_ In nautical Spanish _prois_ or _proiza_ is a breastfast or headfast, that is a large cable for fastening a ship to a wharf or another ship.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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