Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	see_v	soul_n	4,080	5	4.6528	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18329	The deligtful [sic] history of Celestina the faire. Daughter to the king of Thessalie Shewing how she was inchaunted by the three fairies: with the strange aduentures, trauels, chiualries, tournies, combats, victories, and loues of diuers wandring princes and knights errant, but especially of Sir Marcomyr of Tharsus, who did conquest hir by the sword, and enioied her afterwards in mariage, with the Thessalian kingdome for hir dowrie, and his perpetuall inheritance. Done out of French into English.; Primaleon (Romance). English. Selections.	Barley, William, d. 1614.	1596 (1596)	STC 4910; ESTC S122496	168,531	252

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