Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	king_n	wales_n	3,066	5	10.0865	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20134	Thomas of Reading. Or, The sixe worthy yeomen of the west. Now the fourth time corrected and enlarged by T.D.	Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.	1612 (1612)	STC 6569; ESTC S105320	56,723	76

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