Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	kingdom_n	4,596	5	5.5955	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27382	The loyalty of the last Long Parliament, or, A letter to an English gentlemen at Florence shewing that the late Parliements address'd against did not so much intrench on the prerogative as that of XVIII years continuance, of whom His Majesty said \"never any king was so happy in a House of Commons as I in this,\" King's Answer, 20 Febr. 1663.	T. B.	1681 (1681)	Wing B187; ESTC R5136	12,054	22

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