Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	day_n	great_a	989	5	2.8177	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53594	Chaucer's ghoast, or, A piece of antiquity containing twelve pleasant fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England, which makes them prove mock-poems to the present poetry : with the history of Prince Corniger and his champion Sir Crucifrag, that run a tilt likewise at the present historiographers / by a lover of antiquity.	Lover of antiquity.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.; Ovid, 43 B. C.-17 or 18 A. D. Metamorphoses.; Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.	1672 (1672)	Wing O647; ESTC R31770	28,522	136

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