Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	bind_v	good_a	law_n	1,145	5	4.7032	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03434	Straunge, lamentable, and tragicall hystories translated out of French into Englishe by R.S.	Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.; Smythe, R.	1577 (1577)	STC 1356.5; ESTC S141	53,770	122

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