Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	death_n	life_n	3,302	5	4.8128	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47409	Poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonets; Selections. 1664	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.	1664 (1664)	Wing K502; ESTC R22779	61,123	200

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