Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	write_v	year_n	5,160	5	4.8919	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76832	The blasphemer tried and cast: or, a more full narrative of the tryal of Lodowick Muggleton, on Wednesday the 17th of this instant January, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly. : With a relation of the charges delivered to the jewry, and the sentence passed upon him for his most impious and horrid blasphemies. : Which was to stand three days in the pillory in three of the most eminent places in the city, and to have his books burnt before his face by the common hangman ...		1676 (1676)	Wing B3167A; ESTC R225663	3,449	9

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