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	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
B08159	An answer to that question, Hovv farre it is lavvfvll to flee in the time of the plagve extracted out of a sermon preached in Alderman-bury, / by Thomas Taylor..	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1636 (1636)	STC 23819.5; ESTC S123735	4,985	2

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