Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	think_v	time_n	2,521	5	3.4050	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16563	A true discourse of a cruell fact committed by a gentlewoman towardes her husband, her father, her sister and two of her nephewes First printed in French at Roan: and now translated into English.		1599 (1599)	STC 3469; ESTC S120282	5,777	16

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