Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	acknowledge_v	age_n	ancient_a	28	3	5.6113	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85541	GratI Falisci Cynegeticon. Or, A poem of hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent.; Cynegeticon. English and Latin	Grattius, Faliscus.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1581; Thomason E1531_3; ESTC R1966	59,252	180

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