Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ambassador_n	king_n	peace_n	4,428	5	6.4303	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92749	The wicked plots, and perfidious practises of the Spaniards, against the 17. provinces of the Netherlands, before they tooke up arms. Being gathered out of severall Dutch writers, by a lover of truth, and an unfained hater of oppression and tyrannie, the bane of commonwealths: [text defaced]	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2087; Thomason E123_8; ESTC R212764	11,693	8

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