Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	send_v	time_n	10,202	5	3.6554	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06339	A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed, that the two zones torrida & frigida, are not onely habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the old philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour which is in the skinnes of the Ethiopians and Negroes &c. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the Riuer Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 4. Besides the description of diuers plants, fishes and beastes, that are found in those countries. Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell.; Relatione del reame di Congo. English	Lopes, Duarte.; Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. 1553.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 16805; ESTC S108820	127,173	219

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under_o the_o ground_n and_o then_o arise_v again_o as_o some_o say_v the_o true_a spring_n of_o nilus_n be_v out_o of_o the_o first_o lake_n the_o second_o lake_n the_o people_n that_o dwell_v about_o the_o second_o lake_n the_o island_n of_o meroe_n the_o r._n coluez_n the_o r._n abagni_n the_o r._n saraboe_n the_o isle_n of_o syene_n the_o two_o branch_n of_o nilus_n fall_v into_o the_o mediterranean_a sea_n the_o cause_n of_o the_o increase_n of_o nilus_n the_o several_a course_n of_o sundry_a great_a river_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 1._o the_o river_n that_o fall_v from_o head_n hom._n odis_n 4._o the_o conclusion_n of_o this_o book_n