Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	bed_n	father_n	great_a	35	3	2.0867	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64483	The idylliums of Theocritus with Rapin's discourse of pastorals / done into English.	Theocritus.; Rapin, René, 1621-1687. Treatise de carmine pastorali.; Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700.	1684 (1684)	Wing T855; ESTC R28198	90,526	238

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