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	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00476	The picture of incest. Liuely portraicted in the historie of Cinyras and Myrrha. / By Iames Gresham..; Metamorphoses. English. Selections	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Gresham, James, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 18969; ESTC S125905	10,942	37

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