Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	706	4	8.2392	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02093	Theeues falling out, true-men come by their goods: or, The belman wanted a clapper A peale of new villanies rung out; the sound being musicall to all gentlemen, lawyers, farmers, and all sorts of people that come vp to the tearme: shewing that the villanies of leawd women, excell those of men.; Disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1615 (1615)	STC 12235; ESTC S113894	33,505	44

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