Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	author_n	find_v	great_a	1,744	5	2.5325	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41698	Poems, chiefly consisting of satyrs and satyrical epistles by Robert Gould.	Gould, Robert, d. 1709?	1689 (1689)	Wing G1431; ESTC R14024	124,654	348

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