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	read_v	write_v	2,323	5	5.1781	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28504	I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1656 (1656)	Wing B3380; ESTC R2352	497,035	486

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