Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	great_a	see_v	4,001	5	3.3205	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08186	The lamentations of Germany. Wherein, as in a glasse, we may behold her miserable condition, and reade the woefull effects of sinne. / Composed by an eye-witnesse thereof: and illustrated by pictures, the more to affect the reader. By Dr. Vincent. Theol..	Vincent, Philip, b. 1600.; Weckherlin, Georg Rodolf, 1584-1653.	1638 (1638)	STC 24760.5; ESTC S95680	21,484	88

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finis_fw-la relinquens_fw-la theologica_fw-la &_o quae_fw-la praeterea_fw-la hâc_fw-la in_o speculâ_fw-la occurrunt_fw-la viris_fw-la reverendissimis_fw-la penes_fw-la quos_fw-la ea_fw-la censendi_fw-la est_fw-la auctoritas_fw-la cognoscenda_fw-la infandas_fw-la lamentabilis_fw-la germaniae_fw-la calamitates_fw-la haudquaquam_fw-la reticendas_fw-la sed_fw-la piâ_fw-la ment_fw-la memorandas_fw-la censeo_fw-la novemb_n 12._o 1637._o g._n rodolphus_n weckherlin_n

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