Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	chamberlain_n	earl_n	henry_n	2,559	5	8.2526	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02897	An Æthiopian historie written in Greeke by Heliodorus: very vvittie and pleasaunt, Englished by Thomas Vnderdoune. With the argumente of euery booke, sette before the whole vvoorke; Aethiopica. English	Heliodorus, of Emesa.; Underdown, Thomas.	1569 (1569)	STC 13041; ESTC S106061	229,084	308

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