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	lord_n	5,077	5	3.6205	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93951	The two last speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and deputy of Ireland The one in the Tower, the other on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12th 1641.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5800aA; ESTC R230021	8,086	12

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