Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	know_v	life_n	7,850	5	4.5045	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18952	A recantation of an ill led life, or, A discouerie of the high-way law with vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders : as also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe : most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue and practise / written by Iohn Clauell ... ; approued by the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, and published by his expresse commaund.	Clavell, John, 1601-1643.	1628 (1628)	STC 5369.2; ESTC S1866	32,753	84

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