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	see_v	think_v	3,978	5	3.8757	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63476	The true copie of a letter sent from Sir Ralph Hopton, Col. Ashburnham, and Sir Iohn Berkley ; to Mr. Christopher Clarke, Major of the city of Excester [sic] for the laying down their armes, raysed for the Parliament, and the delivering up the city to the King : with the answer which the Major returned to them.	Hopton, Ralph Hopton, Baron, 1598-1652.; Berkeley, John, Sir, d. 1678.; Ashburnham, William, d. 1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing T2621; ESTC R9122	1,618	8

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