Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	think_v	1,468	5	3.8318	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02048	A direction for the health of magistrates and studentes Namely suche as bee in their consistent age, or neere thereunto: drawen aswell out of sundry good and commendable authours, as also vpon reason and faithfull experience otherwise certaynely grounded. Written in Latin by Guilielmus Gratarolus, and Englished, by T.N.; De literatorum et eorum qui magistratibus funguntur conservanda præservandaque valetudine. English	Gratarolo, Guglielmo, 1516?-1568?; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1574 (1574)	STC 12193A; ESTC S105793	61,219	174

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