Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	french_a	king_n	queen_n	10,616	5	7.5932	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65611	The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical histories in which the most excellent historians are reduced into the order in which they are successively to be read, and the judgments of learned men concerning each of them, subjoin'd / by Degoræus Wheare ... ; to which is added, an appendix concerning the historians of particular nations, as well ancient as modern, by Nicholas Horseman ; made English and enlarged by Edmund Bohun, Esq. ...; Reflectiones hyemales de ratione & methodo legendi utrasque historias, civiles et ecclesiasticas. English	Wheare, Degory, 1573-1647.; Horsman, Nicholas, fl. 1689. Mantissa.; Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1592; ESTC R6163	182,967	426

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article_n v._o the_o historian_n of_o the_o goth_n dane_n sclavonian_n and_o swede_n article_n vi_o the_o historian_n of_o the_o longobard_n article_n vii_o the_o historian_n of_o the_o borussian_n and_o poles_n article_n viii_o the_o historian_n of_o the_o bohemian_n switzar_n and_o saxon_n article_n ix_o the_o historian_n of_o celts_n or_o gall_n and_o french_a under_o which_o name_n we_o include_v all_o which_o be_v enclose_v by_o the_o rhine_n pyrenaean_a hill_n the_o alps_n and_o the_o ocean_n article_n x._o the_o historian_n of_o the_o netherlands_o dutch_n and_o flandrian_o article_n xi_o the_o spanish_a historian_n article_n xii_o the_o historian_n of_o the_o turk_n and_o arabian_n who_o heretofore_o have_v the_o dominion_n of_o syria_n persia_n africa_n and_o spain_n and_o be_v common_o call_v saracen_n article_n xiii_o the_o historian_n of_o aethiopia_n india_n almost_o all_o africa_n and_o of_o the_o new_a world_n or_o america_n article_n xv._n the_o historian_n of_o some_o great_a city_n sect_n xxxii_o a_o transition_n