Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	see_v	2,875	5	3.5208	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34529	Eye-salve for English-men, and an alarvm to the Londoners wherein is contained the summary of Romes late designes against England, and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London, so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the author : together with the opening of an effectual door, to the happiness of this nation : whereunto is annexed a postscript containing reasons and motives to his Highness and the present power in being, to grant us s[u]ch a committee which hath been long promised, and much longer desired and sought for / composed for the view of His Highness, and all the people of England, by Jeffrey Corbet ...	Corbet, Jeffrey.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6244; ESTC R39395	24,070	29

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