Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	christian_n	good_a	work_n	1,327	5	5.4021	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96898	The Lords table. Whether it is to be spread like a table in an inne for all comers? That it ought not so be done is here maintained.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3498; Thomason E880_7; ESTC R206596	63,848	77

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