Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	5,110	5	5.0778	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97031	Mr. Wallers speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday the fourth of July, 1643. Being brought to the Barre, and having leave given him by the speaker, to say what hee could for himselfe, before they proceeded to expell him the House. Iuly 14. 1643. Imprimatur, John White.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1643 (1643)	Wing W523; Thomason E60_11; ESTC R23547	3,499	8

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