Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	good_a	husband_n	wife_n	5,477	5	7.5435	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

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