Note 308 — The Table. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Usually spelt prease or prese. The word signifies crowd. It occurs in this sense in Edwardes' Damon and Pythias, composed about 1564.
"Yet shall there no restraynt Cause me to cese, Among this prese, For to encrese Youre goodly name."
Skelton's Garlande of Laurell.