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	place_n	time_n	2,365	5	3.3450	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81693	The Downe-fall of Dagon, or, the taking downe of Cheap-side crosse this second of May, 1643. wherein is contained these principalls following, viz. First, Cheapside crosse sick at the heart. Secondly, his death and funerall. Thirdly, his will, legacies, inventory and epitaph. Fourthly, the reason why it was taken downe, and the authority for it. Fiftly, the benefit and profit that is made of the materialls of it, and the severall summes of mony which is offered for it; likewise the satisfaction it will give to thousands of people. Sixtly notes worthy of the readers observation, that the crosse should just happen to bee taken downe on that day which crosses were first invented and set up.		1642 (1642)	Wing D2084; Thomason E100_21	4,446	7

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