Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	know_v	5,049	5	3.5427	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34574	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876	92,519	237

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to_o the_o tower_n where_o he_o remain_v above_o two_o year_n before_o he_o can_v be_v admit_v to_o trial_n during_o this_o interval_n the_o whole_a nation_n be_v surprise_v and_o alarm_v with_o the_o noise_n of_o a_o horrid_a plot_n contrive_v by_o the_o pope_n priest_n and_o jesuit_n wherein_o the_o king_n be_v to_o be_v murder_v army_n raise_v protestant_n massacr_v and_o the_o three_o kingdom_n destroy_v by_o fire_n and_o sword_n the_o people_n be_v affright_v search_v make_v guard_v double_v and_o all_o in_o a_o uproar_n the_o king_n hereupon_o consult_v the_o parliament_n and_o both_o house_n declare_v it_o a_o plot_n yet_o to_o strengthen_v the_o evidence_n as_o yet_o but_o weak_a and_o make_v far_a discovery_n indempnity_n be_v promise_v reward_v propose_v and_o encouragment_n give_v by_o proclamation_n to_o any_o who_o will_v make_v out_o upon_o oath_n the_o particular_n of_o what_o in_o substance_n be_v already_o declare_v by_o this_o and_o the_o like_a sedulity_n of_o the_o 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