Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	year_n	2,888	5	4.9547	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64859	The compleat comptinghouse, or, The young lad taken from the writing school and fully instructed by way of dialogue in all the mysteries of a merchant from his first understanding of plain arithmetick, to the highest pitch of trade whereby the master is saved much labour and lad is led by the hand to all his work and business : which to youth is accouted troublesome but will here seem pleasant : a work very necessary for all that are concerned in keeping accompts of what quality soever / by John Vernon.	Vernon, John.	1678 (1678)	Wing V249; ESTC R3623	95,284	266

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