Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	live_v	time_n	year_n	2,725	5	4.7853	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12778	The faerie queene Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. morall vertues.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.	1596 (1596)	STC 23082; ESTC S117748	537,247	1,116

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