Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	child_n	king_n	son_n	4,367	5	5.1460	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30612	Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac's masterpiece being a discourse concerning the court : with an exact table of the principall matter / Englished by R.W.; Aristippe. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; R. W.	1659 (1659)	Wing B612; ESTC R7761	82,994	192

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