Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	fire_n	hell_n	worm_n	1,679	5	10.4739	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20858	The considerations of Drexelius upon eternitie translated by Ralph Winterton ...; De aeternitate considerationes. English. 1636	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.; Winterton, Ralph, 1600-1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 7236; ESTC S784	128,073	396

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