Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	line_n	observation_n	read_v	2,781	5	10.7244	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14802	A true Christians daily delight being the summe of euery chapter of the Old and New Testaments, set downe alphabetically, in English verse, that the Scriptures we reade may more happily be remembred, and the things forgotten more easily recalled. By Simon Wastel, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, now schoole-master of the Free-schoole in Northampton.	Wastell, Simon, d. 1632.; Shaw, John, 1559-1625. Biblii summula.	1623 (1623)	STC 25103; ESTC S119487	85,989	215

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