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
B08155	A funerall elegie, in memory of the rare, famous, and admired poet, Mr. Beniamin Ionson deceased. VVho dyed the sixteenth day of August last, 1637, and lyeth inter'd in the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter at Westminster..	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1637 (1637)	STC 23759; ESTC S95482	4,915	28

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