Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	king_n	law_n	people_n	3,485	5	5.2685	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62652	The time-servers, or, A touch of the times being a dialogue between Tory, Towzer, and Tantivee, at the news of the dissolution of the late worthy Parliament at Oxford.		1681 (1681)	Wing T1278; ESTC R4526	1,248	1

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