Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	old_a	york_n	yorkshire_n	21	3	9.9926	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62423	The life of Mother Shipton a new comedy as it was acted nineteen dayes together with great applause / written by T.T.	T. T. (Thomas Thomson), fl. 1668.	1670 (1670)	Wing T1009; ESTC R2655	32,589	62

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