Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_n	country_n	letter_n	1,339	5	8.0829	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80277	The complaint of the boutefeu, scorched in his owne kindlings. Or The backslider filled with his owne wayes: in two letters of the ministers of the Presbytery at Carrick-Fergus, to the Lord of Ardes, now in rebellion in Ulster, in Ireland, against the common-wealth of England: with his answer to the first of those letters. Together with some animadversions upon the sayd letters.		1649 (1649)	Wing C5614; Thomason E566_18; ESTC R206202	7,759	16

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