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	people_n	see_v	2,763	5	3.6476	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60216	Colonel Sidney's speech delivered to the sheriff on the scaffold December 7th 1683.	Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing S3765; ESTC R221476	3,171	9

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