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	king_n	prince_n	1,951	5	5.5530	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79412	An imperfect pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty Charls the II. By the grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Written by a loyal subject, who most religiously affirms, se non diversas spes, sed incolumitatem Cæsaris simpliciter spectare.	Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3677; Thomason E1084_8; ESTC R208017	10,882	27

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