Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	read_v	time_n	year_n	2,583	5	4.6005	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87570	A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182	21,533	64

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