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	life_n	time_n	2,672	5	3.2697	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49153	A Looking-glas for maids, or, The Downfal of two most desperate lovers Henry Hartlove and William Martin, both late living in the Isle of Wight, who for love of Ann Scarborow, a beautiful virgin, she having made her self sure to one of them and afterwards fell off to the other : they challenged the field, where after a cruel fight, they were both mortally wounded, and found dead on the place by the forementioned maiden, who bestowed many tears on their bodies, and buried them in one grave.		1670 (1670)	Wing L3022; ESTC R30955	1,891	1

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