Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	love_n	love_v	14,009	5	6.7932	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94684	Aminta: the famous pastoral. / Written in Italian by Signor' Torquato Tasso. And translated into English verse by John Dancer. Together with divers ingenious poems.; Aminta. English	Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.; Dancer, John, fl. 1660-1675.	1660 (1660)	Wing T172; Thomason E1836_2; ESTC R203743	50,018	155

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