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	see_v	think_v	3,716	5	3.8256	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40896	A letter sent out of Ireland to one Mr. Bell a merchant at this time living in St. Thomas Apostles : being a true relation of the present estate of Ireland as it now stands under the present persecution of the papists : also their carriage towards Dublin an their cruell and most ty [sic] tyrnnicall buring of Armath : sent over by a gentleman from Ireland unto a worthy merchant of this citie in a letter : the which letter was openly read on Friday last upon the Royall Exchange in London, and the contents confirmed by a gentleman who but lately arrived from Ireland and was spectator of most of those bloody and tragicall proceedings.	Farmer, Jacob, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing F440; ESTC R23049	2,385	7

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