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	know_v	time_n	3,481	5	3.4488	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55761	The hectors, or, The false challenge a comedy written in the year MDCLV, the scene, London.	Prestwich, Edmund, fl. 1650-1651.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3315; ESTC R13616	58,451	74

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