Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	work_n	world_n	worldly_a	47	3	8.2909	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09809	The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus: collected out of good authors. Also the liues of nine excellent chieftaines of warre, taken out of Latine from Emylius Probus, by S.G. S. By whom also are added the liues of Plutarch and of Seneca: gathered together, disposed, and enriched as the others. And now translated into English by Sir Thomas North Knight	Nepos, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum. English. Selections.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1602 (1602)	STC 20071; ESTC S111836	1,193,680	142

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experience_n in_o despite_n of_o scandal_n and_o all_o lie_a rumour_n have_v manifest_v that_o these_o puritan_n and_o precisian_n be_v such_o person_n as_o both_o 2.17_o fear_n god_n and_o honour_n the_o king_n though_o they_o oppugn_v the_o corruption_n sin_n profaneness_n and_o popish_a and_o pelagian_n error_n of_o the_o time_n with_o all_o such_o factious_a innovator_n who_o either_o broach_n new_a heresy_n and_o superstition_n or_o revive_v old_a as_o for_o their_o loyalty_n to_o their_o prince_n his_o power_n and_o prerogative_n it_o be_v so_o apparent_a that_o however_o papist_n and_o person_n popish_o affect_v 303._o now_o slander_v they_o as_o enemy_n to_o monarchy_n and_o prince_n prerogative_n in_o word_n to_o 23._o take_v off_o this_o merit_a imputation_n from_o themselves_o yet_o they_o b●ame_v they_o even_o under_o the_o very_a name_n of_o puritan_n as_o overgreat_a advancer_n and_o chief_a patriot_n and_o propugner_n of_o monarchy_n of_o prince_n supremacy_n in_o 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