Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	england_n	king_n	year_n	2,458	5	4.8013	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61750	A strange and true relation of the prodigious multitude of mice that have destroyed the plants, herbs, and grasse between Rotterdam and Schedam likewise infesting their houses and chambers insomuch that the inhabitants thereof are in despair of their security : wherein you will find a philosophical and historical relation concerning the generation of those vermine and some prognosticks raised there-from : as also an account how Dengy hundred in Essex hath been formerly infested with an incredible number of mice, and how it was freed after a miraculous manner / as it was communicated to a person of qualitie by a letter from a merchant living in Rotterdam.	Anonymus, Eugenius.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5841; ESTC R26947	4,018	8

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