Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	england_n	france_n	king_n	3,694	5	4.2233	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53018	A New-years gift to impostors: or, The manifest of William the Third King of England, Scotland, and Ireland delivered and dispersed at the French Court, &c. as an overture to the General Peace, proposed about the later end of the year 1693. and concluded in 1697. Faithfully done out of the original into English, and now published by a true friend to truth and justice, and consequently to his King and country.		1697 (1697)	Wing N818; ESTC R221381	7,733	4

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