Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bad_a	good_a	reason_n	1,431	5	5.5448	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67137	The wounds of a friend, or, A letter mentioned by Mr. Love upon the scaffold in his speech a little before his death sent unto him the night before he should have been executed in the moneth of July, which is upon the occasion of the said mention thereof published / by John Price, of Colemanstreet, London.	Price, John, of Colemanstreet, London.	1651 (1651)	Wing W3664; ESTC R9250	4,693	10

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