Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

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cause_n	good_a	work_n	work_v	5,063	5	7.8717	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06780	A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation with divers pleasant geometricall obseruations, fortifications, and arithmeticall examples. In fauour of mathematicall students. Newly written in French, and Englished by the authour Tho: [sic] Malthus.; Traité des feux artificiels pour la guerre, et pour la recreation. English	Malthus, Francis.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1629 (1629)	STC 17217; ESTC S109781	49,979	283

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