Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	heart_n	love_n	love_v	3,572	5	6.5737	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02320	The letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated into English, according to the last edition. By W.T. Esq; Epistolarum liber unus. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Tyrwhit, William.	1634 (1634)	STC 12452; ESTC S103512	145,059	448

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