Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	name_n	read_v	1,589	5	5.8219	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61332	Three tracts of the great medicine of philosophers for humane and metalline bodies ... all written in Latine by Eirenæus Philalethes ... ; translated into English for the benefit of the studious, by a lover of art and them.; Tres tractatus de metallorum transmutatione. English	Philalethes, Eirenaeus.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1694 (1694)	Wing S5290; ESTC R13309	63,120	206

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