Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	good_a	read_v	word_n	3,211	5	4.1636	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85540	October the 22. 1649. The three-penny cooks fat in the fire, or rhe [sic] downefall of as-in-presentis; or the schoole-master under the black-rod. Or the brain-breakers breaker newly broke out againe. By Thomas Grantham, master in art of Peter-house in Cambridge, heretofore professor in Bowlane and Mug-well-street neere Barber Chyrurgions Hall: now over against Graies Inn Gate in Holborne, at Master Bulls.	Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1560; Thomason E575_26; ESTC R206345	8,397	12

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