Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	bless_v	lord_n	verse_n	4,951	5	9.3630	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39233	Poems, or, Epigrams, satyrs, elegies, songs and sonnets, upon several persons and occasions	Eliot, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing E521; ESTC R40411	49,129	127

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