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	matter_n	see_v	3,060	5	3.1155	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63506	A True description of a treacherous plot intended against this kingdome by the Lord Digby and his asistants at Sherborne in the county of Dorset with the exact number of armes, muskets, pikes and barrels of gunpowder, to the number of two hundred by him hid and contrived in an old cellar belonging to the Lord George his father : with the manner how and by what accident it came to bee descried : as also how the steward of his house being examined and found faultring in his speech was committed to prison where hee yet remaineth.		1642 (1642)	Wing T2673; ESTC R9136	2,364	7

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