Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	lie_v	4,415	4	6.0595	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14380	A prospectiue glasse to looke into heauen, or The cœlestiall Canaan described Together with the soules sacred soliloquie, and most ardent desire to be inuested into the same. Sung in a most heauenly hymne, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most vnworthy, Iohn Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1618 (1618)	STC 24698; ESTC S111547	48,107	79

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