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
A55424	Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.	Pope, Walter, d. 1714.	1698 (1698)	Wing P2913; ESTC R8618	41,820	128

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