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	love_n	love_v	4,903	5	6.7044	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14706	The spectacle of louers here after foloweth a lytell contrauers dyalogue bytwene loue and councell, with many goodly argumentes of good women and bad, very compendyous to all estates, newly compyled by wyllyam walter seruaunt vnto syr Henry Marnaye knyght Chauncelour of the Duchye of Lancastre.	Walter, William, fl. 1520.	1533 (1533)	STC 25008; ESTC S111572	13,622	34

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his_o love_n spe●●_n in_o vain_a ¶_o such_o be_v the_o condycyon_n of_o lover_n impacyent_a that_o do_v desire_v that_o they_o may_v not_o attain_v which_o to_o their_o degree_n be_v not_o equivalent_a yet_o by_o reason_n they_o can_v not_o theym_n refrain_v but_o of_o their_o possybylyte_n to_o complain_v of_o the_o dyffycultye_n they_o seek_v no_o remedy_n both_o counsel_n and_o shame_n they_o utter_o deny_v ¶_o amator_fw-la ¶_o why_o shall_v not_o man_n love_v woman_n in_o their_o mind_n since_o that_o brute_n beeste_n do_v love_v their_o semblable_a all_o thing_n be_v govern_v by_o nature_n and_o by_o kind_n and_o since_o that_o nature_n in_o beeste_n be_v so_o stable_n why_o shall_v not_o a_o man_n a_o creature_n reasonable_a love_n a_o woman_n since_o nature_n do_v he_o bind_v will_v you_o have_v man_n err_v against_o their_o kind_n specta_fw-la of_o lo._n ¶_o we_o lover_n have_v always_o such_o hard_a chance_n some_o for_o to_o love_v far_o under_o their_o degree_n or_o theym 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