Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	wicked_a	world_n	year_n	49	3	4.3133	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19409	The infallible true and assured vvitch, or, The second edition of the tryall of witch-craft shevving the right and true methode of the discoverie : with a confutation of erroneous waies, carefully reviewed and more fully cleared and augmented / by Iohn Cotta ...	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?; Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1550-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 5838; ESTC S300	112,889	182

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