Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	2,073	5	3.6840	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88503	Londons new colours displaid: or, The snake in the cities grasse-green petition discovered. For preventing the horrid mischiefs thereby intended, against the army, and all the well-affected people in city and countrey.		1648 (1648)	Wing L2942; Thomason E452_21; ESTC R204863	11,379	16

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