Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	brother_n	great_a	king_n	4,413	5	3.5662	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18337	Gerardo the vnfortunate Spaniard. Or A patterne for lasciuious louers Containing seuerall strange miseries of loose affection. Written by an ingenious Spanish gentleman, Don Gonçalo de Cespedes, and Meneçes, in the time of his fiue yeeres imprisonment. Originally in Spanish, and made English by L.D.; Español Gerardo. English	Céspedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de, 1585?-1638.; Digges, Leonard, 1588-1635.	1622 (1622)	STC 4919; ESTC S107646	292,536	482

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