Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	author_n	know_v	write_v	2,987	5	5.2886	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66771	The prisoners plea, humbly offered in a remonstrance with a petition annexed, to the commons of England in Parliament assembled / by George Wither ; falsely charged to have composed a lybel against the said commons, and therefore now prisoner in Nemgate ; it combineth also many interjections not to be defined, as	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3180; ESTC R12459	31,803	62

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